UPDATE III: Scott Blvd reopened around 11pm last night, according to DPD.
UPDATE II: Decatur PD also confirms that as of 10:15pm, Scott Boulevard is still closed.
UPDATE: More detail from Decatur Police…
On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at approximately 6:00 pm, Decatur Police responded to a vehicle accident involving two vehicles on Scott Boulevard at Ridley Circle. Preliminary investigation revealed one driver was attempting to turn off of Ridley Circle, eastbound onto Scott Boulevard. One driver was traveling westbound on Scott Boulevard. The driver of one of the vehicles, an adult, was killed and their passenger was taken to an area hospital and is in critical condition. The driver and a passenger in the other vehicle were also taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The investigation is ongoing. The identity of those involved are not being released at this time pending notification of family.
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Sad news coming out of a two-car accident that occurred on Scott Boulevard in Decatur this afternoon.
Decatur Police provided this detail in response to our inquiry, after we received word from a Decatur resident that there were fatalities reported…
At approximately 6:00 pm, Decatur Police responded to a car accident involving two vehicles on Scott Boulevard at Ridley Circle. There is one confirmed fatality of an adult. Three other occupants are being treated at area hospitals.
The accident is currently under investigation. The identity of those involved are not being released at this time pending notification of family.
Good lord, she was a teacher at Lakeside and the kids were on their way to the Lakeside prom.
We live a few hundred yards from the site of the accident and just happened to be returning home a few minutes after the crash. It was absolutely horrific. I’m no accident reconstructionist but the car that t-boned the left-turning vehicle had to be going 65+ mph. It’s absolutely amazing that anyone in the car survived given what it looked like. Just horrible.
Think it goes back to cars being amazingly crash-resilient from front to back, but far less so side-to-side. You can therefore survive a pretty bad head-on collision, but if you are t-boned, you have far less protection. That’s my understanding, anyway. Very sad all around.