ALEA Investigates Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision
By: Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
December 3, 2025
MOBILE, AL. A two-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 5:57 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, has claimed the life of a Mount Vernon man.
The man has been identified by ALEA as Michael T. Martin, 71, and he was fatally injured when the 2022 Jeep Compass he was driving struck the 2014 Freightliner garbage-truck driven by James F. Burson, 48, of Mobile. Martin was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Neither Burson nor Elijah D. Blackston, 21, of Lucedale, Miss., who was a passenger in the Freightliner, were injured as a result of the crash.
The crash occurred on Alabama 217 near the 23-mile marker, approximately four miles south of Citronelle city limits, in Mobile County. Nothing further is available as Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol Division continue to investigate
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