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CHURCH HILL — A Church Hill woman was killed Sunday evening when a pickup struck the passenger side of the vehicle in which she was riding as it crossed Highway 11-W at the Goshen Valley Road intersection.
The driver of the pickup, William H. Edens, 83, of Surgoinsville, reportedly told the Tennessee Highway Patrol that his light was yellow as he crossed the intersection.
Two witnesses reportedly said that the Mazda carrying the victim had the green light when it crossed the highway.
A 16-year-old Giles County student was killed driving home from a friend's house Wednesday afternoon, according to officials.
Tison Marks, a junior-to-be at Giles County High School, was killed sometime after 4 p.m. after he wrecked his truck on Dog Branch Road. The Tennessee Highway Patrol said Marks' truck went down an embankment and struck a tree.
"You hear the specific name and you start putting face, memories, family and everything with that and it's devastating," said Giles County High Principal Mark Cardin.
A man was killed, and his was wife injured in a rollover crash in Maury County, Saturday night.
Rescue crews were called to the scene on McClanahan Road in the Hampshire Community around 8 p.m.
Officials with the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Gray Sands, Jr., 69 of Franklin and his wife, Candace, 67, were driving along McClanahan Road, when he lost control going around a curve.
The preliminary report states that car left the road and rolled several times down a steep embankment, where it came to rest upside down against a tree.
A tractor-trailer driver is dead after a fiery crash on Interstate 240 eastbound at Millbranch Road on Thursday night.
The tractor-trailer left the road, hit the ditch and a fence before it burst into flames around 8:45 p.m.
Good Samaritans pulled 37-year-old Jamie Fore from the truck.
A tractor-trailer driver is dead after a fiery crash on Interstate 240 eastbound at Millbranch Road on Thursday night.
The tractor-trailer overturned and burst into flames around 9:45 p.m.
Crews pulled the driver from the truck. He was sent in extremely critical condition to the Regional Medical Center, where he died.
The driver's name hasn't been released but WMC Action News 5 has found that he is from Memphis, worked for J and J Waste and was hauling paper when the crash happened.