Wreck claims the life of PC woman

By Staff
Jonathan Willis
A county woman died in a two-vehicle accident Tuesday in Colbert County.
Charlotte Stehno, 46, of Franklin 34 in Phil Campbell, was killed when her 2002 Lincoln LS collided with a 2002 Ford Taurus driven by 59-year-old Kenneth Jerry Hines, of Lauderdale 8 in Florence.
The wreck occurred about half a mile north of Littleville on a section of U.S. 43 where an accident last week killed a mother and son.
The accident took place at 2:31 p.m.
Hines was traveling south, toward Russellville, and had just moved into the right lane when the accident happened.
He told investigators that he believed Stehno's car was hydroplaning and spinning when the collision happened.
The impact was to the driver's side of Stehno's vehicle.
April Stewart Redford and her 15-year-old son Dalton, of Colbert Heights, were killed in a wreck just yards away from the scene of Stehno's accident last week.
Crews with the Alabama Department of Transportation are looking at the area and trying to find a way to make the road safer. One option that has been mentioned is lowering the speed limit to 55 miles per hour through that area.