http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/06/09/40c6bdf078561
Former football player killed in car accident
By Dennis Pillion Senior Sports Reporter June 09, 2004
UA graduate and former walk-on football player Paul Adam "Kip" Williams, 22, was killed on May 19 when his sport-utility vehicle collided head-on with a tractor-trailer in south Mobile County.
Williams graduated from the University in December with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing, and played wide receiver for the Crimson Tide from 2000-2002, lettering in his final season.
"He knew he wasn't going to play a lot, but he loved Alabama and he'd do anything you'd ask him to," Randy Ross, Alabama's director of football operations, said.
"Kip was an outstanding young man to be around. It's sad because he had such a bright future," Ross said.
Williams had started his first job in the marketing department of Maxim Health in Mobile just two days before the accident.
The Chatom native was a 1999 graduate of Washington County High, where he was a star receiver and member of the National Honor Society.
Cpl. Spencer Collier of the Alabama State Troopers said Williams' vehicle crossed over the center line at around 2:50 a.m. and crashed into a tractor-trailer driven by Johnny Bill Storer of Mobile.
Williams was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from his 1986 Chevrolet Blazer. Storer was not injured in the accident.
The crash occurred on Range Line Road in Mobile, the main road to Dauphin Island. Williams was pronounced dead on the scene.
Collier said the cause of the accident had not been determined and that troopers were waiting for the results of alcohol and drug tests.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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