Longtime state Rep. Barbara Boyd, D-Anniston, remained hospitalized Wednesday, officials said, after she was seriously injured in a car wreck on May 9.
“She’s improving and resting,” Rep. Randy Wood, R-Anniston, said of his fellow Calhoun County representative. He declined to comment further, citing Boyd’s family’s request for privacy.
The wreck happened Thursday night as Boyd was on her way home from the Legislature’s final day of the 2024 session.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency continues to investigate the cause of the wreck, it told Alabama Daily News in a statement Wednesday night.
According to ALEA, the two-vehicle crash occurred at just after 8 p.m on Alabama 21 near the 246 mile marker, about four miles south of Oxford in Talladega County.
“Skyler C. Mosley, 39, of Oxford was injured when the 2018 Jeep Renegade he was driving was struck by the 2019 Kia Soul driven by Georgia T. Christian, 75, of Talladega,” the statement said. “Mosley was transported to Regional Medical Center in Anniston for treatment. Christian and Barbara B. Boyd, 87, of Anniston, who was a passenger in the Kia, were both injured and transported to Regional Medical Center in Anniston for treatment.”
Boyd has undergone multiple surgeries, ADN learned Wednesday.
Boyd has a doctorate in education and was a career educator, including teaching at Jacksonville State University. She was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1994. She’s one of the longest-serving House members.
“We hope and pray that she does well,” Wood said.