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A woman is behind bars and charged in a hit and run crash that killed a 59-year-old man from the Orange Mound community.
Curteria Leuellyn, 21, will face a judge Monday on a list of charges including vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident.
Police say Leuellyn was driving a Chevrolet Malibu she borrowed from a friend Saturday night. According to officers, she was driving on Deadrick Avenue near Hugenot Street, when she ran off the road and hit 59-year-old Curtis Echols on the sidewalk.
Interstate 40 at Canada Road in Lakeland was shutdown for hours after a crash involving multiple vehicles, according to the Shelby County Fire Department.
The crash of at least six vehicles sent five people to the hospital. None of the victims transported suffered life threatening injuries.
One person was cut out of a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Eastbound lanes opened up late Tuesday night and traffic moving again.
According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation's smartmap, the crash happened around 8:40 p.m.
A White Bluff woman continues to recover after her SUV was struck by a train Monday afternoon in west Nashville.
The collision was reported about 5 p.m. near Highway 70 and McCrory Lane, and surveillance video from a nearby gas station showed the woman's vehicle crossing the tracks just as the fast-moving train approached.
Jeffrey Grant was getting gas across the street at Eddie's Market at the time.
"Before I knew it, I heard this big explosion," Grant said.
The funeral for a popular air show pilot who died in a plane crash over the weekend will be held Monday at the Fargo Air Museum.
Jim “Fang” Maroney died Sunday when he crashed his plane into the side of a mountain south of Knoxville, Tenn., in the Cherokee National Forest.
It took crews some time to recover his body, but it has been retrieved and it will be sent to Fargo on Friday, said Dick Walstad, co-chairman of the Fargo AirSho.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. at the Fargo Air Museum, 1609 19th Ave. N., Walstad said.
Three people who survived a plane crash atop Holston Mountain in East Tennessee have been safely rescued.
Carter County Sheriff Chris Mathis told the Johnson City Press that rescuers reached the victims Wednesday morning after getting a report about the crash Tuesday evening. Mathis says it took rescue crews several hours to reach the site of the crash, which was in a densely forested area at an elevation of 3,000 feet.
He said the plane had stopped in Elizabethton for fuel on its way to Ohio after departing from Charleston, S.C.
Tennessee Highway Patrol responded to a fatal crash in Cheatham County on Saturday afternoon.
The crash happened around mile marker 191 on I-40, when THP says a driver swerved for an unknown reason and struck a cliff face. The vehicle then went back into the roadway and came to rest in the left lane.
The driver, 18-year-old Gary Russel, was killed in the accident. Police believe he might've survived if he had been wearing his seatbelt.
The westbound lanes were closed for nearly two hours while officials cleared the scene.
All lanes are now reopened.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has identified the Kentucky men killed Thursday morning when their car slammed into a tractor trailer at about 80 mph in Robertson County.
The wreck occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on Lake Springs Road at the Highway 31 intersection on the Robertson-Sumner county border.
A tractor trailer was attempting to turn left from Lake Springs Road onto Highway 31 when it was rear-ended by the car, according to the THP report.
A Davidson County woman is accused of trying to bribe a Metro officer to get out of a DUI charge after police say she crashed her car into a golf cart on Broadway.
The crash happened near 1st Avenue on Sunday.
Police say the woman behind the wheel of the car was honking and flipped the bird at the men in the golf cart before hitting the accelerator, crashing into them.
The driver, Janice Merrick, was given several DUI tests.
Police say the 59-year-old was so drunk that she could not walk or stand straight.