Authorities have released the name of a Florida woman who was killed in a crash with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 65 in Shelby County earlier this week.

Alabama State Troopers identified the victim as Le’kisha Franklin-Morgan. She was 49 and lived in Perry, Florida.

The wreck happened about 8:15 p.m. on I-65, about two miles south of Calera.

Senior Trooper Vu Quang said Franklin-Morgan was a passenger in a 2025 Kia Soul that struck a Kenworth tractor-trailer driving by 47-year-old Netzahualcoyotl L. Rodriquez-Castro of Texas.

Quang said Franklin-Morgan was not using a seatbelt at the time of the crash. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

Her husband Donald Morgan Jr., the 55-year-old driver of the Kia, was taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham. The extent of his injuries was not released.