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The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) reported on Wednesday that the crash occurred on Asheville Highway when a Mercury Grand Marquis slowed to turn onto Cove Creek Road and was rear-ended by a Ford
Ultimately resulting in 14 deaths, the collision is the deadliest and one of the worst in the history of Tennessee. [4] [5] The collision led to outcry from politicians and citizens calling for traffic safety and infrastructure improvements, such as highway widenings, and the completion of Interstate 81 in Tennessee. [6]
Fatal crash totals in Tennessee in 2021. Fatal crashes: 1,229. Deaths: 1,327. Deaths per 100,000 people (out of a population of 6,968,351): 19. Deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled: 1.61 ...
A Memphis police officer and a motorist who was driving with a gunshot wound were killed in a car crash early Friday, authorities said. Officers were called to the location of a crash involving a ...
The report also identified four major safety issues associated with the crash, and made recommendations to address these issues to a number of agencies including the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), TDOT, THP, multiple local law enforcement ...
Live traffic cameras also showed a large emergency vehicle response blocking all eastbound travel lanes near the crash site and a string of gridlocked traffic leading up to the shut-down stretch ...
SR 1 begins as a primary route on Interstate 55 (I-55) in the middle of the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge at the Arkansas–Tennessee state line. US 61, US 64, US 70, US 78, and US 79 come off the bridge alongside SR 1; US 61 soon turns south with SR 14 and US 78 continues along E.H. Crump Blvd with SR 4 heading eastward.
Fatal Tennessee crashes in 2024 so far By Feb. 29, there had already been 21.7% fewer fatal crashes in 2024 than by the same date in 2023 (though last year didn't have leap day ). 2024 year-to ...