Trucker killed, Interstate shut down for hours following Monday morning crash - Chattanooga Times Free Press
The driver of a Chevrolet Equinox SUV suffered nonlife-threatening injuries after striking debris that landed in the road after the truck crashed. According to police, Mills was traveling southbound on the interstate when he almost ran head-first into the guardrail near exit 7, the Bonny Oaks Drive exit, around 5:51 a. m. After striking the guardrail, Mills' rig and hopper trailer... According to Tennessee Department of Transportation traffic data, around 70,000 motorists pass through the stretch of road on a daily basis. The fatal collision occurred only eight miles from the site where Kentucky truck driver Ben Brewer crashed his tractor-trailer into stopped traffic on the northbound side of I-75, killing six people on June 25. And while investigators did not... "This truck traffic/truck driver behavior is out of control," said another. According to TDOT data, there were 961 traffic fatalities in Tennessee last year, and 103 — just over 10 percent — involved a large truck, though the data doesn't say whether a large truck was at fault in the incidents. There were 42 fatal wrecks in Hamilton County in 2014. Chattanooga police said additional information about. Source: www.timesfreepress.com
