Alabama Woman Dies After Wrench Crashes Through Windshield While Son Was Driving Her to Work

Mar. 15, 2025

Earlie Harris.Photo:arlie Harris

arlie Harris

A 58-year-old Alabama woman died earlier this month when a wrench crashed through the windshield of the car she was riding in, according to her family.

In a news release shared with PEOPLE on Friday, Aug. 30, the Montgomery County Police said that authorities responded to a single-vehicle collision in the area of the I-65 Southbound off-ramp and West South Boulevard on the morning of Aug. 8.

“At the scene, contact was made with the passenger, Earlie Harris, 58, of Montgomery, Alabama, who sustained fatal injuries from roadway debris. She was pronounced deceased on the scene,” read the police statement.

Harris was heading to her job on Aug. 8 with her son Cedric, NBC affiliateWSFAreported. At the time, they were driving on I-65.

Cedric told the outlet that a large wrench flew through the windshield and struck his mother.

“I ducked down and looked up and my mom was bleeding and I pulled off the interstate,” he recalled to WSFA.

Harris’ family told WSFA that they don’t know where the wrench came from, but they suspect it might have been from a truck heading north on the interstate.

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The Beasley Allen Law Firm, which is representing the family, is offering a $1,000 reward to the public for information.

”It’s something you can’t miss,” said the firm’s attorney, LaBarron Boone, per WSFA. “Somebody out there with high traffic, who was behind it, saw the object fall, bouncing down the street. It didn’t hit them, and maybe they just continued, but it did end up killing Ms. Earlie Harris.”

The late woman’s family described her as a loving mother and grandmother, with her son telling WSFA that she was “caring” and “big on family.” According to an onlineobituary, Harris was a native of Montgomery.

Police are continuing to investigate the incident, WSFA reported.

source: people.com