JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP - At about 1:00 a.m. May 12, 2021, Green County Sheriff’s Deputies, along with the Juda Fire Department, responded to a report of a car on fire along Middle Juda Road about 1/2 mile west of Richland Road.

Upon further investigation, deputies concluded that a driver, Hunter J. Harrison, 18, of Juda, was operating a vehicle traveling west on Middle Juda Road when the vehicle left the roadway and traveled into the north ditch hitting a tree and catching on fire. 

Harrison was pronounced dead at the scene by the Green County Coroner’s Office. The investigation cites speed as a factor in the crash.