• 27
  • August
    2010

According to the Georgia State Patrol and emergency officials, two teenagers from Limestone County were killed on Tuesday afternoon after their car collided with a logging truck near Ardmore.

The fatal accident occurred about 5 p.m. on Bain Road, about six miles south of Ardmore, state troopers told the Huntsville Times. 17-year-olds Jordon Young of Toney and John McCowen of Ardmore were the victims of the wrongful death accident.

State troopers say that Young was the driver of the 2002 Chevy Cavalier the boys were in during the truck accident. They suspect that Young ran a stop sign before hitting the logging truck, which was heading southbound on Mooresville Road.

Both boys were killed immediately in the car accident and were pronounced dead at the scene. Both had been wearing seatbelts.

The driver of the truck, 61-year-old Clifton Stubblefield of Petersburg, Tennessee, suffered only minor injuries in the accident.

Although police have not said who was at fault in the truck accident, the teen driver may have been negligent if he did, in fact, run the stop sign before the collision. An investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing. Whether the teen driver or the trucker was at fault, the family of John McCowen may have a wrongful death claim.

Related Resource:

"Two teens killed in accident near Ardmore" (The Huntsville Times, August 25, 2010)