Accident news in Southern Middle Tennessee
A tractor-trailer driven by 43 year-old Brandon Hollis was traveling westbound on I-24 near mile-marker 133 in the right lane around 7 p.m. Wednesday night. Information released from the Tennessee Highway Patrol indicates the truck was coming down Monteagle Mountain hauling lumber and crossed into the left lane and continued onto the left shoulder. …
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Two of the top five deadliest interstate highways run through Tennessee, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Stacker analyzed the data from the NHTSA’s 2020 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) to determine which interstates had the most fatalities. According to the report, I-95 was the deadliest interstate highway in 2020. The highway runs through 15 states from …
Two of the Countries Deadliest Interstates run through Tennessee Read More »
Area law enforcement officers are searching for a 2011 to 2012 Honda Accord with the front grill knocked out and the radiator leaking severely. The vehicle in question hit a motorcycle on Interstate 24 and left the rider on the side of the roadway. The incident took place Saturday night around 10:30 p.m. eastbound near …
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Tonya Fletcher, 45 of Wartrace, who family reports was born and raised in Coffee County died because of injuries she received in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 41A South. Fletcher reportedly became trapped in her burning pickup truck in the accident earlier this week on the highway between Shelbyville and Tullahoma. In a report from …
A fatal two-vehicle crash occurred Thursday morning on the Hillsboro Hwy. The Tennessee Highway Patrol reports say that Christopher May, 61 of Winchester was driving a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado when he collided with a 2000 Peterbilt tractor-trailer. May died from injuries he received in the crash. The THP report says that May veered into the …
Fatal Crash on the Hillsboro Hwy Thursday Morning Read More »
This is Work Zone Awareness Week in Tennessee, and with pothole repairs on interstate projects ongoing, TDOT is using this week to urge drivers to use more caution on the roadways. According to TDOT in 2021, more than 4,000 crashes happened in work zones on Tennessee roads, that number went up from 2020 when there …
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement personnel responded to a traffic crash Thursday morning involving a truck and a school bus. The head-on collision occurred on the Cowan Highway adjacent to Arnold Farm Road. Four students on the bus were transported by ambulance to Southern Tennessee Regional Health System and two additional students …
Truck and School Bus Collide Head-On Seven taken to Hospitals Read More »
Last Thursday evening (March 31, 2022) wreck on Highway 55 sent four to the emergency room. According to Trooper Rodney Whiles of the Tennessee Highway Patrol around 7;40pm a 2015 Peterbilt tractor trailer, driven by Jackie Whitmore of McMinnville, was backing into his residence on Manchester Highway when he was struck by a 2015 Nissan …
18-year-old Billy Taylor of Fayetteville was fatally shot on Wednesday. Police responded to a vehicle crash at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday night and when fire and ambulance crews arrived, they pulled Taylor from the crashed car. As the first responders were removing Taylor, they discovered he had been shot multiple times. He was then rushed to …
A man who law enforcement officers suspect was involved in the death of a Sims Road woman Tuesday night is being sought by law enforcement. The man, described in a Bedford County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post as a “black male, slender build” walked away from a wreck at the Sims Road-Henslee Road intersection around 7:30 …
Man being sought after Bedford County Deputies find Female Dead in Her Home Read More »
