Former Alabama Star Loses Wife and Four Kids to Car Accident

[Colossus_500]

Very sad.  My kids are close to this age.  I would be devastated.   


Associated Press OneNewsNow.com
November 20, 2007

DOTHAN, Ala. - A van driven by former University of Alabama football star Siran Stacy was struck by a pickup at an intersection and six people were killed, including Stacy's wife and four of his children, state troopers said Tuesday.
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The driver of the second vehicle also was killed, said Dorris Teague, a spokeswoman for the state troopers.

Stacy, 39, a star running back for Alabama during 1989-91, was listed in stable condition in surgical intensive care at Flowers Hospital in Dothan.

Stacy, who has been employed by a mortgage company, was the first pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1992 draft, but amid injury and legal problems he was cut the next year. While he never carried the ball in the NFL, he played for a few years in Canada and for minor pro leagues.

State trooper Sgt. Tracy Nelson said the pickup was on the wrong side of the four-lane road when it struck Stacy's van on the passenger side late Monday at an intersection on U.S. 84 about six miles west of Dothan.

Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd said Stacy had stopped for a red light. "The light turned green and they proceeded to cross" the four-lane highway when hit by the other vehicle, he said.

Nelson said investigators hadn't determined why the pickup was in the wrong lane.

"He hit them broadside, T-boned them at the intersection there," said Houston County Coroner Robert Byrd.

"I've never had anything like that in my life and I've been doing this for 20 years," Byrd said. "The truck that hit the car was on the passenger side and the impact was substantial."

Stacy's 3-year-old daughter, Shelly, was taken to Children's Hospital in Birmingham, which did not release her condition.

Byrd identified the victims as Stacy's wife, Ellen Stacy, 36; children Lequisa, 18, Bronson, 10, Sidney, 8, and Ellie, 2, all of Newton in southeast Alabama; and pickup driver Adam W. Wayman, 29, of Dothan.

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[gtbro1]

   that guy will be a mental and emotional  wreck. My thoughts are with him and his family. That sucks.

[body88]

Horrible.... What a terrible tragedy.

[mass 04]

That's terrible, I can't imagine what it is like to deal with something like that. Very sad

[Dos Equis]

Terrible.   

[Faust]

  that guy will be a mental and emotional  wreck. My thoughts are with him and his family. That sucks.

Man , that's rough.

Can you imagine getting the phone-call...
Your whole world collapses in a couple of seconds.

[ATHEIST]

 
  if Shelly doesnt survive, i dont know what i would do if i were in that situation. i dont think i would want to live really. whats the messege God is trying to send Stacy?? im being genuine here. how could that be allowed to happen. everything is gone for him.

[milfer]

 
  if Shelly doesnt survive, i dont know what i would do if i were in that situation. i dont think i would want to live really. whats the messege God is trying to send Stacy?? im being genuine here. how could that be allowed to happen. everything is gone for him.

i'm not being negative and i'm gonna pray for him and his family, but He was in an automobile accident in September 2006 which resulted in the death of two people.

[ATHEIST]

i'm not being negative and i'm gonna pray for him and his family, but He was in an automobile accident in September 2006 which resulted in the death of two people.

  maaan...really?? i didnt know that. was he the one liable?
regardless though, i mean still he...i dont even know what to say. im sure the family he affected took the loss terribly
 i sincerely hope his daughter survives.
thats just not fair.   
 
 if he is religious i hope he doesnt look at this as a sign from God, for his prior accident which resulted in the death of the two people. no one deserves that.

[gtbro1]

Man , that's rough.

Can you imagine getting the phone-call...
Your whole world collapses in a couple of seconds.

   My neighbor when I was a kid lost his wife and mother in an auto accident. To make it even worse, he was first on the scene. He didn't realise it was them..he saw the wreck and stopped to help and found them...what a nightmare.

[gordiano]

   My neighbor when I was a kid lost his wife and mother in an auto accident. To make it even worse, he was first on the scene. He didn't realise it was them..he saw the wreck and stopped to help and found them...what a nightmare.