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7:05 pm Friday, May 2, 2008

Saturday Update: Three injured in Friday morning wreck

By Staff
Jonathan Willis
Three people were injured in an early morning wreck Friday on U.S. 43.
The wreck happened in front of Ray's Southside Grocery, near the Walnut Gate/U.S. 43 intersection in Russellville.
A 2007 Suzuki driven by 45 year-old Jonathan Berlin, of Russellville, struck a 1993 BMW as it pulled off Washington Avenue. The driver of the vehicle, Otoniel Sigueroa, of Russellville, was transported to UAB Hospital.
Emergency personnel said it appeared that Sigueroa's injuries were serious.
A third man was injured when Sigueroa's car struck him as he sat in the parking lot at the store. Antonio Vazquez, an occupant in a parked car was injured and taken to a local hospital. Witnesses at the scene said Berlin was traveling south on U.S. 43 when he hit Sigueroa as he pulled on to the highway from Washington Avenue. Sigueroa ended up in the store parking lot, while Berlin's vehicle ran over a garbage bin and down a hill near the parking lot at Southside Baptist Church.
Berlin was taken to a local hospital.

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