My husband had an almost-accident on the same road. People! Drive carefully. Watch your speed. Watch out for deer (!). When you turn onto 431, rather wait an extra minute than trying a daredevil stunt. That road is deadly.
Gary Cole, 54, the driver of the tanker truck involved in the accident, died at an Atlanta Hospital. Cole had suffered severe burns after flames engulfed his tanker truck when it slammed head-on into a minivan driven by a 29-year-old Eufaula woman. Killed instantly at the scene were Jennifer Long Gilmore, 29, of Eufaula, and her two sons, Robert, three, and Bram, two. (...) Gilmore and her children were traveling north on U.S. 431 toward Columbus, where she worked and her young sons attended daycare. (...) Cole's death brings the number of crosses on U.S. 431 to 48. All 48 of those fatalities occurred on two-lane stretches of U.S. 431.
