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Monday, March 19, 2012
A 20-year-old Ragland woman was found dead Sunday following a motor vehicle accident in Calhoun County.
Authorities say the body of Magen Elaine Hughes was discovered in a vehicle off to the side of the roadway at 5110 Alabama 77 late Sunday afternoon. The late-model Mustang she was driving had run off the road and struck a tree.
The coroner’s office was called and Hughes was pronounced dead at 5:25 p.m.
Calhoun County Deputy Coroner Shane Adrian said the cause of death was blunt force trauma and estimated that the accident had occurred much earlier in the day, sometime between midnight and 3 a.m.
Adrian said the highway at the accident scene was not curved or on a hill. He said the victim’s vehicle came to rest about 50 feet off the road in a location that would not have been obvious to passing motorists as an accident scene.
“It was right there with several wrecked vehicles, like a junkyard type thing,” he said.
A trucker called the authorities because, Adrian said, he noticed that the Mustang’s airbag had deployed.
The Alabama State Troopers office is investigating the accident.
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