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A duo accused of stealing a car and crashing it in North Nashville in the wee hours of this morning -- killing a backseat passenger -- face a variety of charges and may have links to an earlier car theft.
Driver Derrick Thomas, 16, of Torbett Street, was treated and released from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He's being booked into juvenile detention and will be facing charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, evading police, driving without a license, curfew violation and auto theft.
A teenager died in a single-car crash Sunday on Hull Avenue in Marshall County.
Lewisburg police say 17-year-old Brice Carr was pronounced deceased on the scene after his truck swerved off the road and hit a tree.
According to police, at about 11:30 a.m. Carr lost control of the truck because of the slick road conditions.
Neighbors say the road is dangerous and this isn't the first wreck they have seen over the years.
Police are investigating a crash that occurred on I-40E near Donelson Pike on Saturday morning.
A dark-colored SUV collided with a sedan, hit a guardrail, and rolled over before coming to rest on the concrete retaining wall.
Three women in the SUV were transported to Vanderbilt with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the sedan was not hurt in the crash.
Authorities shut down a portion of the interstate following the incident.
A 17-year-old pedestrian who died after being struck by a tractor trailer at a busy downtown Nashville intersection Thursday has been identified as a Hume Fogg High School student.
Metro police said Elena Zamora, a junior at Hume Fogg, was walking east to west on Church Street in a crosswalk at 1 p.m. when she was struck by a tractor trailer that was turning right from Church Street onto Rosa L. Parks Boulevard.
Indications are Elena had the signal to walk, and the truck had a green light.
A crash involving three cars on eastbound Interstate 24 sent several people to the hospital Wednesday night.
I-24 was shut down for several hours near Harding Place starting around 10 p.m. when the crash happened.
Witnesses say they watched a 2013 Nissan Sentra weave slightly before coming to a complete stop in the inside eastbound lane.
The driver was later identified as 41-year-old Tresa Partee of Nashville.
Police say a 2007 Nissan Maxima hit Partee's vehicle, and then a 1995 Nissan Maxima hit the 2007 Nissan.
The names of victims in a Friday evening crash that killed one and injured two on Interstate 40 at Campbell Station were released Sataurday.
The driver, Claudia Vazquez, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene, and passengers Maria Estrada, 40, and Ofelia Guichapa, 56, were injured, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Their vehicle was heading eastbound on Interstate 40 in the right lane at 5:30 p.m. when it veered off the roadway to the right and struck an embankment, according to the THP report. The vehicle was overturned and all three occupants were ejected.