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A Piperton area pastor is dead and family members say his wife is in critical condition after a car crash in Southaven Tuesday. ... He also served on the executive board of the Tennessee Baptist ...
A fund has been set up to aid the family of a former Oak Ridge pastor and his wife with expenses after the couple was killed in a car crash in Southaven, Tennessee on Sept. 4.
A sign for Interstate 55 South and Interstate 69 South is seen from I-55 between the Goodman Road and Church Road exits in Southaven, Miss., on Monday, June 17, 2024.
Interstate 55 (I-55) is part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from LaPlace, Louisiana, to Chicago, Illinois.In the state of Tennessee, the Interstate is located entirely within the state's second-largest city of Memphis, running 12.28 miles (19.76 km) from the Mississippi state line in the Whitehaven neighborhood to the Arkansas border across the Mississippi River.
When it was realized that a national highway system was needed, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 provided for a highway replacing the old US 66 which I-55 filled. I-55 was originally constructed in the 1960s, to extend a section of US 66 between I-294 and Gardner which had been converted into a freeway and had Interstate signage installed in 1960.
June 6 – India – Uttarakhand bus accident. A bus carrying 55 wedding guests fell into a 500-metre-deep gorge. [343] [344] 32 people were killed and the rest were heavily injured. [345] June 13 – United States – On I-25 in Weld County, Colorado, a semi-truck rear-ended two cars, one of which collided with a third car, killing five. [346]
According to the Illinois State Police, the crash occurred around 4:31 a.m. on northbound I-55 near milepost 3, involing a tractor trailer and a SUV. One person was pronounced dead at the scene.
[7] [8] The stretch of US 11W between Knoxville and Bristol has been labeled as one of the most dangerous and deadliest stretches of highway in the state of Tennessee and the nation. [9] [10] US 11W, prior to the completion of I-81, was considered by freight, commuter, and interstate traffic as the principal route from Bristol to Knoxville.