Garlock, the coroner, said the location of the wreck is “notorious” for hydroplaning, as the northbound highway curves down a hill to a small creek. Four others were ranch residents and two were guests, Smith said. Two of the dead in the van were Gulley’s children, ages 4 and 16. Gulley remained hospitalized Sunday in Montgomery in serious but stable condition. He had returned from Gulf Shores in a separate van and did not see the crash when it happened. “Words cannot explain what I saw,” Smith said of the accident site, which he visited Saturday. Candice Gulley, the ranch director, was the van’s only survivor - pulled from the flames by a bystander. Michael Smith, the youth ranch’s CEO, said the van was heading back to the ranch near Camp Hill, northeast of Montgomery, after a week at the beach in Gulf Shores. The van in Saturday’s crash was carrying children ages 4 to 17 who belonged to the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch, a youth home operated by the Alabama Sheriffs Association. “By afternoon, we expect the system to be well offshore.”Ībout 1 to 2 inches of rain was expected for the Carolinas before Claudette moved out to sea. “An isolated tornado is possible early this morning over parts of the Outer Banks,” said Brad Reinhart, a specialist with the National Hurricane Center. The storm was expected to move into the Atlantic Ocean later in the morning, then travel near or south of Nova Scotia on Tuesday.Ī tropical storm warning was in effect from Cape Fear, N.C., to the town of Duck on the Outer Banks. The storm was located 65 miles east-southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina, and moving east-northeast at 25 mph, forecasters said. Monday morning, Claudette had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. Crews were using boats to search Pebble Creek. Makayla Ross, a 23-year-old Fort Payne woman, died Saturday after her car ran off the road into a swollen creek, DeKalb County Deputy Coroner Chris Thacker told WHNT-TV.Ī search was also underway for one man believed to have fallen into the water during flash flooding in Birmingham, WBRC-TV reported. Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit. Additionally, a 24-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were also killed Saturday when a tree fell on their house just outside the Tuscaloosa city limits, said Capt.
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