Gadsden, AL : Man seriously injured in two cars crash in Highway 431 on Monday January 11 2016.

Glencoe police say witnesses and video from a nearby business helped them determine that two cars turned from northbound U.S. Highway 431 onto West Air Depot Road in front of a Gadsden man traveling south, causing him to swerve and strike a utility pole.
Police Chief Jonathan Horton said Joe Clifford Ransaw, 61, was traveling south toward Anniston just before 7:30 a.m. Monday when two cars, traveling north on U.S. Highway 431, turned across the southbound lanes of traffic.
“He did a good job of avoiding the cars,” Horton said, but when Ransaw swerved, he hit the utility pole with a street light on it.
Ransaw suffered serious injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital. Horton said he understood he might be taken to intensive care, or possibly flown to a Birmingham hospital.
Horton said police continue to investigate, with the help of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency personnel.
Video from a nearby business shows a distant image of two cars approaching the turn and the moment when Ransaw’s vehicle swerves and strikes the pole in front of Briarmeade Shopping Center.
From looking at the video and trying to recreate where the cars would have been in connection to other vehicles, Horton said investigators determined the light had to have been green for Ransaw. For the other two vehicles, officers believe the light had been green with an arrow, but the arrow had cycled off, leaving a green traffic signal that required the drivers to yield before turning.
Horton said they didn’t yield and didn’t stop after the vehicle hit the utility pole.
There were a couple of known witnesses to the accident. One has been interviewed and has given police some information about what she saw; Horton said he expects to talk to the other witness today.


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Glencoe police investigating crash; man seriously injured