A 46-year-old Mobile woman was killed on a Sunday evening after being struck by two separate vehicles while walking along McCrary Road roughly two miles north of Semmes, according to Alabama State Troopers.
Troopers said the pedestrian was walking along the roadway around 5:40 p.m. when a pickup truck struck her. A second vehicle also struck the woman shortly afterward. She was transported to University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile, where she was later pronounced dead.
The driver of the first vehicle involved was not injured in the collision. Troopers said the second vehicle involved in the crash had not been publicly identified as the investigation continued into the following day.
State troopers said they were still working to determine the exact circumstances that led to the pedestrian being struck, and had not released additional details about what she may have been doing on McCrary Road at the time of the crash or what visibility conditions were like along that stretch of roadway that evening.
McCrary Road is a rural two-lane road that winds through unincorporated areas north of Semmes in western Mobile County. Like many roads in the area, it lacks sidewalks or dedicated shoulders for pedestrians, features common on rural Baldwin and Mobile County roads that were built primarily for vehicle traffic rather than foot travel.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Troopers division typically handles fatal traffic investigations that occur outside city limits in unincorporated parts of Mobile County, including the area around Semmes. Investigators use evidence from the scene, along with vehicle inspections and witness accounts, to reconstruct how a crash occurred and whether any charges are warranted.
Pedestrian fatalities on rural roads without sidewalks remain a persistent traffic safety concern in Mobile County and across South Alabama, particularly on roads that carry a mix of higher-speed through traffic and local residential access. Traffic safety advocates have periodically called for expanded lighting, shoulders and pedestrian infrastructure on similar rural corridors, though funding for such projects in unincorporated areas often competes with other county road priorities.
No further updates on the status of the investigation were available at the time of the initial report.