DALE COUNTY: Ozark – Dale County 911 dispatched a motorcycle verses semi accident, Highway 231 North and Dale County Road 30.
This intersection is north of the Alabama Welcome Center between Newton and Ozark.
The accident is reported to have occurred in the northbound lanes of traffic.
Survival Flight and Enterprise Rescue helicopters were requested but the missions were not possible due to the weather.
ALEA – Troopers, Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum, and members of Dale County Sheriff Department are on the scene.
ALEA – Troopers will be in charge of the accident investigation.
GUESSING that Ozark Fire – Rescue responded. Ozark Police and Ozark Fire – Rescue are kept unground as to knowing what they do. That is the reason they get very little coverage.
UPDATED @ 9:24 AM
The semi did stop. Preliminary information the driver noticed something in his mirrors in the road that was not there before. The driver pulled over and went and looked and found the motorcycle and rider.
This is a traffic fatality. Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum is personally making the death notifications.
Dale County Coroner John Cawley is on the scene.
UPDATED @ 2:37 PM
Dale County Coroner John Cawley has released the nameof the victim in this mornng’s accident. He is identified as Joseph Lee Muccio of Dothan.
