A Northport woman was killed after a multi-vehicle crash in Tuscaloosa County Wednesday morning.

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Justin O’Neal, Senior Trooper for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency State Troopers, said a two-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 10:25 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15,  claimed the life of a Northport woman.

83-year-old Jearldine R. Sanford was fatally injured when the 2010 Chrysler Town & Country she was driving was struck by a 2005 Fleetwood Bounder driven by John Sturkie, 30, of Waynesboro, Ga.

Sanford was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash, which occurred on Joe Mallisham Parkway, approximately three miles south of Northport, in Tuscaloosa County.

Nothing further is available as Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division continue to investigate.

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