HOUSTON COUNTY: 07:58 AM Houston County 911 dispatched a serious/critical motor vehicle accident on Highway 231 South and Smithville Road. The accident was dispatched as a bus versus a truck, with possible entrapment.
Houston County Sheriff Deputies, ALEA – Troopers, Hodgesville Volunteer Fire Department, Rehobeth Fire – Rescue, Taylor Fire Command Unit were called to the scene.
The accident involved a southbound Greyhound Bus and a truck pulling a cattle trailer with about 5 cows.
Rehobeth Fire – Rescue transported four or five patients. One is reported to have extensive injuries. At 8:45 AM the scene command called for Cottonwood Rescue to respond to transport an additional patient who requested transport.
Dothan Fire Sgt. Justin Godwin, off duty, and others checked the cattle. Dothan Livestock and Auction sent a trailer and the cattle were off loaded onto another trailer. All of the cattle were checked and none appeared to be injured.
Impact of the bus was directly into the doors of the truck pulling the cattle trailer.
ALEA – Trooper Motor Carrier Safety Unit has been dispatched.
It is 41 degrees. Volunteer Fireman Cliff Godwin called a couple of churches attempting to get a bus to pick up the passengers. There are about 25 people standing beside the road who were on the bus. Memphis Baptist Church has dispatched their church bus to the scene to transport the passengers somewhere warm until Greyhound gets another bus. THANK YOU to Memphis Baptist Church for their stepping up to help.
ALEA – Trooper Carlton is in charge of the accident investigation.
