The first weekend of the new year was a deadly one with at least four fatal accidents in the area. State Troopers report that a Montgomery woman lost her life when two vehicles collided Saturday afternoon on U.S. Highway 231 near Anderson Road between Wetumpka and Montgomery. She has been identified as 76-year-old Margaret Caudle.
That same afternoon two other vehicles crashed about two miles north of Wetumpka on Alabama Highway 170 near Williams Road. One of the drivers, 46-year-old Daryl Brad Kendrick of Wetumpka died in the accident. Kendrick was reportedly not wearing a seatbelt. That's according to State Troopers. That evening, just after 6 0' clock a three car pileup took the life of a Pell City child. Authorities say two cars and a Jeep ran into each other on I-65 about three miles south of Prattville. The victim has been identified as 12-year-old Adashia Moss.
Finally, a fatality occurred in a single-vehicle wreck just north of Selma. Troopers say that 43-year-old Joseph James Osburn was killed when the SUV he was driving left Persimmon Tree Road and struck a tree. Osburn was from Selma. He, too, was reportedly not wearing a seatbelt. No details as to the cause of any of the accidents have been released.