Marietta Man Dies in Alabama Crash

A Marietta man was killed in a collision Friday afternoon in Fort Payne, AL, the Fort Payne Times-Journal reported today.

Eleazar Felipe Colunga Posadas died at the scene of the two-vehicle wreck near St. Philip’s Episcopal Church about 2:30 p.m., Fort Payne Police Chief Randy Bynum told the newspaper.

Bynum said Posadas lost control of his Nissan Maxima, which veered across the road and was struck in the driver’s door by a Mercury Mountaineer driven by a Fort Payne resident who was slightly injured, the Times-Journal reported.

Posadas’ speed was a factor in the wreck, the police chief told the newspaper, and alcohol is suspected.

Fort Payne is off Interstate 59 in northeast Georgia, about 100 miles from Marietta.