Cherokee County Traffic Fatality
Posted/updated on: October 27, 2010 at 2:36 am
ALTO — A former sergeant for the Angelina County Sheriff’s Department has been killed in a one vehicle accident in Cherokee County. Dead at the scene of the Saturday night crash was Randy Bridges, 52, of Corrigan. The accident happened on U.S. Highway 69 about six miles south of Alto. The Department of Public Safety reports Bridges was heading south just before 10:00pm when he lost control of his pickup on a curve. Both the pickup and the trailer he was pulling overturned on the rain slick highway.