Tuscaloosa Police Identify Woman Killed in Sunday Night Wreck

The Tuscaloosa Police Department has identified the victim killed in a two-car collision on Greensboro Avenue Sunday night as a 50-year-old Tuscaloosa woman.

Stephanie Taylor, TPD's public information officer, said the victim was Karen Smith Barr, 50.

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Barr was killed just before 7:30 Sunday night when the SUV she was driving south on Greensboro Avenue was struck by a sedan headed north as Barr attempted to turn left onto 43rd Street near Academy Sports.

Barr was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

The driver of the other vehicle, a 26-year-old woman, was extricated from the wreckage of her car and taken by ambulance to DCH Regional Medical Center for treatment of injuries that Taylor called serious but not life-threatening.