{"id":331861,"date":"2026-06-11T07:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331861\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:55:28","slug":"victim-killed-in-weekend-crash-identified-as-dallas-county-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331861\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim killed in weekend crash identified as Dallas County man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DALLAS COUNTY, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wsfa.com\">WSFA<\/a>) &#8211; Investigators are releasing the name of a Dallas County man who was killed in a fiery weekend crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says the victim\u2019s body was pulled from an SUV Sunday morning and transported to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for positive identification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Tuesday, ALEA confirmed the victim as Sardis resident Samuel L. Jackson, 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALEA\u2019s Highway Patrol division determined Jackson was driving a 2023 Toyota 4Runner when, around 7 a.m. Sunday, the vehicle left the roadway, struck a guardrail, a bridge, and then caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash happened on Alabama 22 near the 17 mile marker. That\u2019s about a mile west of Selma, in Dallas County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wsfa-12-news\/id449733109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wsfa&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSFA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) &#8211; Investigators are releasing the name of a Dallas County man who was killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2895,102,581,104,103,521,72044,118652,9875,9874],"class_list":["post-331861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-alabama","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-deadly-crash","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-sardis-alabama","tag-wfsa","tag-wsfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}