On Wednesday night, September 9, an Attalla man was killed in a crash with an 18 wheeler in St. Clair County.
According to Alabama State Troopers the accident happened shortly after 9.35 p.m. on the U.S. 231 some six miles to the north of Pell City. Julius Vann Cook, aged 57, was driving a 2003 Mercury Marquis when he collided with a 2007 Freightliner which was being driven by Tyrone Corbin of Apollo Beach, Florida.
Cook died at the scene and his passenger, Marilyn Cook, who was his wife, was taken to the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham with critical injuries. The truck driver was uninjured.
The reason for the crash is unknown and the investigation continues.
Cook was a graduate of Ashville High School and played football for the Bulldogs and returned as a coach, both for the Ashville High School Girls Softball Team in 1993 and as assistant coach for the Ashville Junior High School Girls Basketball Team from 1994 to 1995.
Cook was inducted into the St. Clair County Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.
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