{"id":9240,"date":"2025-08-25T04:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:21:23","slug":"driver-killed-when-tractor-trailer-crashes-into-embankment-near-elba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/alabama-truck-accidents\/driver-killed-when-tractor-trailer-crashes-into-embankment-near-elba\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed when tractor-trailer crashes into embankment\u00a0near Elba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEAR EBLA, AL \u2013 A driver lost their life when they crashed their tractor-trailer into a creek embankment off Highway 84 West Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdhn.com\/news\/one-dead-after-semi-truck-crashes-into-coffee-co-creek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WDHN<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0said the tractor-trailer crash took place around 11:15 p.m., 15 miles west of Elba. The impact of the collision left the truck with significant damage, and the driver succumbed to their injuries a short time later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coffee County Coroner\u2019s Office has since identified the victim as Robert Lane Fennell, from Troy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating the details of the tractor-trailer crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1jVXDwFTqwIF7sPPJ2kGeh4SlGtIv0vM&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your loved one died in a truck-related collision you suspect was caused by a truck malfunction or the wrongful conduct of another, and are contemplating taking legal action, look no further than Truck Accident Lawyers LLC. As America\u2019s Premier Truck Accident Law Group, we have won over $1 Billion in settlements and verdicts. We are ready to help you obtain every cent owed to you for your injuries and crash-related expenses to help you move forward. Submit a <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>contact form<\/strong><\/a> or call our office at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"tel:+18887745836\"><strong>(888) 774-5836<\/strong><\/a> for a free consultation with our <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alabama truck accident lawyer<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEAR EBLA, AL \u2013 A driver lost their life when they crashed their tractor-trailer into a creek embankment off Highway 84 West Friday.\u00a0 WDHN\u00a0said the tractor-trailer crash took place around 11:15 p.m., 15 miles west of Elba. The impact of the collision left the truck with significant damage, and the driver succumbed to their injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}