Brandy Lee Moore Ballard, a 52-year-old healthcare worker, was killed in a head-on collision on the morning of March 21, 2021, along the 800 block of Arkadelphia Road in Birmingham. Ballard was driving a 2007 Ford Focus at about 6:05 a.m. when a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro crossed the center line and struck her vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene while on her way to care for the elderly.

Witnesses reported the Camaro had been engaged in an illegal street race at the time of the crash. The Camaro’s driver, identified as 22-year-old Carmesia Flannigan, fled the scene after the collision. Authorities later arrested Flannigan and charged her with murder, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, and leaving the scene of an accident with injury; she was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and had bond revoked for violations of conditions from earlier unrelated charges.

Ballard’s family described her as having a heart of gold, and the crash prompted renewed calls from the community to end illegal street racing. If anyone saw the events leading up to the collision or has information about street racing in that area that morning, please come forward.