• 27
  • May
    2010

A recent car accident took the lives of two Alabama residents, Timothy Hargrove, 18, and Karin Fischer, 47, on Monday. Both were killed when Hargrove's motorcycle hit Fischer's vehicle head-on on New Watermelon Road in Tuscaloosa.

The fatal car-motorcycle accident happened around 6 p.m. on the 5600 block of New Watermelon Road, near McWright's Ferry Road. It occurred when Hargrove's Honda motorcycle crossed over an eastbound lane and collided head-on with Fischer's Volvo while driving. Upon impact, Fischer's vehicle was forced off the road before crashing into a nearby home.

Hargrove was pronounced dead at the scene; Fischer was rushed to DCH Regional Medical Center where she died shortly thereafter. According to reports, Fischer was riding with a child in the Volvo at the time of the crash. The child suffered minor injuries but authorities were unsure of the child's age at the time of the crash.

According to an article published by the Tuscaloosa News, Police have determined that the crash was caused by Hargrove's excessive high-speed driving and believe this tragedy could have been avoided by obeying posted speed limits.

Fischer was a German language professor and graduate advisor at the University of Alabama, where she taught since 1998. She specialized in 18th and 20th century literature, language and culture, German-Jewish studies, enlightenment studies, cultural studies and minority literature. 

Hargrove was a high school student who attended Northside High school and a school in Meridian. Both Hargrove's mother and father were deceased at the time of the crash. His mother died from an illness in 2007 and his father died in a car accident seven months later.

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