Sammy Stuart Blankenship, a 57-year-old construction worker from Clanton, was struck and killed while working a night shift on Interstate 59/20 in Bessemer on Sunday, September 22, 2019. He was walking behind a piece of construction equipment near the exit for the Alabama Adventure amusement park when a vehicle drove through the marked construction zone and hit him at about 11:19 p.m.

The driver did not immediately flee; he stopped, inspected his vehicle, then left the scene. A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy who was at the site witnessed the collision and pursued. The driver exited at Academy Drive and was taken into custody on a pending charge of leaving the scene of an accident. Blankenship was transported to UAB Hospital and pronounced dead at 1:03 a.m. on Monday, September 23, 2019.

What information about that night or the people working the construction zone could help clarify exactly how the crash unfolded?