MOBILE COUNTY—A crash killed Derrick Lyvell Skanes, 37, and Paula Michelle Jordan, 37, early Sunday morning. The accident happened at 4:10 a.m. on W. Coy Smith Highway, about four miles west of Mount Vernon.
Authorities said Derrick Skanes drove a 2009 Ford Mustang, which collided with a 2021 GMC Sierra. Emergency responders pronounced Skanes and Jordan dead at the scene.
The GMC driver, a 29-year-old female from Mobile County, survived and was treated at USA Hospital in Mobile.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Highway Patrol Division continues to investigate the crash.