Name of Person Fatally Injured in Motorcycle / Truck Accident Released

The person fatally injured in a two-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon in Centre has been identified as 39 year old Tonya Higdon of a Ft Payne address, according to Cherokee County Coroner Jeremy Deaton.

According to Centre Police Chief Kirk Blankenship Centre Police Officers and members of the Centre Fire Department, along with the Leesburg Police Department and Cherokee EMS responded to the scene on West Main Street just after 1:00pm, where Higdon’s motorcycle had collided with a pickup truck.

She was air-lifted from the scene to UAB Hospital in Birmingham where she died as a result of injuries sustained in the wreck.

Video courtesy of Centre Police Chief Kirk Blankenship

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