On July 24, 2009, 50-year-old Shari Wood Linder was killed in a trucking accident. The fatal accident occurred at approximately 10:00 a.m. as Linder and her husband, 53-year-old Ricky Keith Linder, were traveling on I-10 in Arizona. According to authorities, the big rig was en route to El Paso when, for reasons not yet determined, the truck rolled over and burst into flames. Mrs. Linder did not survive the accident and her husband was taken to a local hospital for treatment of non life-threatening injuries.