HODGESVILLE – HOUSTON COUNTY: 11:50 PM Houston County 911 dispatched Hodgesville Volunteer Fire Department, Rehobeth Fire – Rescue, and Houston County Sheriff Deputies to a critical injury motor vehicle accident on Third Avenue and Saunders Road. ALEA -Trooper Aaron Sanders was dispatched.
Two ambulances from Rehobeth Fire – Rescue were requested and Dothan Fire was mutual aid requested. Pilcher Ambulance also responded.
There was entrapment in one vehicle with major damage. Two patients were transported by Rehobeth Fire – Rescue to Southeast Health, trauma alert, from the scene. The patient in the second vehicle refused treatment.
This intersection is surrounded by Dothan City limits but is in the county. Houston County needs to take a hard look at this intersection because there has been several critical injury accidents and accidents with deaths in this intersection. I, Rickey Stokes, personally have been to critical injury accidents and deaths at this intersection over a 30 year period.
The accident was investigated by ALEA Trooper Sanders.
