HAMILTON-The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reports a single-vehicle accident that has taken the life one one person and sent another to hospital with injuries:
“A single-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 2 a.m. Thursday, October 31, has claimed the life of Fayette man.
Thomas Bellsnyder IV, 32, was fatally injured when the 2009 Chevrolet Equinox he was driving left the roadway and struck a tree. Bellsnyder was not using a seat belt at the time of the crash and was pronounced deceased at the scene. A passenger in the Chevrolet Equinox, Jennifer L. Chaney Franks, 36, of Fayette, was injured and airlifted to UAB Hospital in Birmingham for treatment.
The crash occurred on Fayette County 35 near Canaan Road, approximately six miles South of Hamilton, in Fayette County.
Nothing further is available as Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division continue to investigate.”
Senior Trooper Vu Quang/Alabama Law Enforcement Agency