Six Mile, Ala.
Sheila Wentworth and Dorris Jean Hall set out to pay each other a Sunday visit last week. Wentworth pointed her Jeep Cherokee north on Highway 25. Hall left from the opposite end of the rural Alabama highway, and headed south. Near a bend in the road, the cars slammed into each other, head-on, at 60 mph. Hall, 52, and Wentworth, 45, were sisters. Both were killed. “What are the odds of this?” asked Wentworth’s husband, Brian. “One in a million? One in a billion?” Investigators wondered whether one of the drivers lost control. Maybe, the coroner said, they spotted each other and waved. “Sometimes,” said Bo Hall, Dorris’ son, “it makes the hair stick up on the back of your neck.”
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