Personal Injury Law

Police Investigating Car Accident that Killed 3 Alabama Cheerleaders

By Jenny Albano

Police are investigating the cause of a car accident that killed three Alabama high school cheerleaders and injured four in Friday night, November 30.

Sarah Casey, 16, Courtney Niceley, 17, and Whitney Bradford, 16, of Warrior, Ala., all died when the car they were in hit a tree and went over an embankment. The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Agee, 17, Brittany Lovejoy, 17, Ariel Nibblet, 17, and Alexandria Thomas, 16, were all injured, but thankfully survived the crash.

The Blount County coroner says that the girls were just goofing around, singing and laughing when the driver lost control of the vehicle. He doesn't think that the accident was caused by anything other than the driver was distracted. The teens attended Hayden High School and were returning home from a cheerleading clinic at the time of the crash.

The accident occurred on Alabama Highway 160 about 10 miles east of Hayden. The 2006 Chevrolet Malibu was traveling westbound at around 9:10 p.m. Thursday when it struck the tree and went over the embankment.

For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Car and Motorcycle Accidents.

Full post as published by Huntsville Personal Injury Lawyer on December 02, 2007 (boomark / email).