A preliminary crash report says Alyshia Rushing was driving the wrong way on Interstate 85 before the Mother's Accident that killed her and Landon Dunn on Saturday. The collision happened shortly after 2 a.m. between the Taylor Road and Chantilly Parkway exits in Montgomery, Ala.
Rushing's 2013 Kia Sorento was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes when it slammed into Dunn's 2015 Toyota Tacoma. Rushing was a Tuskegee resident and a TikTok content creator known as Mama-A, with nearly 540,000 followers. Dunn was a Greenville resident and was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Alyshia Rushing and Landon Dunn
The report identifies the crash as a head-on collision and says both Rushing and Dunn were killed. A third person was injured. For people following the case, the report adds a clear account of the vehicle paths involved, but it does not explain why Rushing entered the southbound lanes.
A GoFundMe was set up for Rushing's family, and a GoFundMe was set up by a family friend for Dunn. Those fundraising pages reflect the immediate impact on the two families after a crash that took two lives on Interstate 85.
Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences
Testing on autopsies and toxicology reports for both victims was still pending from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. That leaves the preliminary report with one major piece of the investigation in place — wrong-way driving on an interstate — while the medical findings needed to add cause-of-death detail had not yet come back.
For readers trying to understand the next step, the report gives the location, time, vehicles, and deaths, but not the reason the wrong-way driving began. The missing medical results are the part that may help narrow the remaining questions about what happened in the southbound lanes near Montgomery.
