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Head-on collision claims local youth
According to an account of the accident in Saturday's Dothan Eagle, Brandon Dozier, 20, was attempting to pass another vehicle when the eastbound Mitsubishi Mirage crashed into a Ford Explorer traveling in the westbound lane. Three passengers in the Mitsubishi were critically injured. They were identified as Philip Jackson, 42, Dianna Jackson, 53, and Shawn Rosenberg, 22. Lynn Drew, 50, and daughter Lynsey, 20, the driver and passenger of the Explorer, escaped the collision with minor injuries. A Dothan doctor, John Burgess of Haleburg, was behind the Drew's Explorer on his way to work and witnessed the collision. Quickly assessing the situation at the accident scene, he recognized the worst injured passengers were in the Mitsubishi and began providing aid until the paramedics arrived. See WRECK on page 3 With the help of other witnesses at the scene he helped get two passengers out of the vehicle while another witness extinguished a fire that had started after the collision. Another passenger in the back seat of the Mitsubishi was struggling to breathe. Burgess, having to improvise, opened the woman's airway using a Visine bottle. The injured passengers were transported to Southeast Alabama Medical Center. Dozier was the son of George B. and Carolyn Dozier. Funeral services will be Saturday, March 31 at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal. Church in Blakely
The collision, shortly before 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, took place on the shoulder of the road after both drivers reportedly made the same split-second decision in an effort to avoid the collision.
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