Accident on I-24, 15 miles from Chattanooga
I hope they are ok. Looks like a new Allegro Bus. It had been raining off and on all morning. Please be careful out there. Jeremiah
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Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers Vincent Meaker and Todd Pitts talk with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services Asst. Chief Chris Proctor about a fatal wreck on I-24 Thursday afternoon. The driver of a motor home was working it on the shoulder of the interstate. He was killed when it was struck bay a tractor-trailer.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers Vincent Meaker and Todd Pitts talk with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services Asst. Chief Chris Proctor about a fatal wreck on I-24 Thursday afternoon.
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Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers Vincent Meaker and Todd Pitts talk with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services Asst. Chief Chris Proctor about a fatal wreck on I-24 Thursday afternoon. / THE LEAF-CHRONICLE/ROBERT SMITH
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CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — A Florida man was killed Thursday afternoon when a tractor trailer smashed into the motor home he was repairing on the side of Interstate 24.
At about 3 p.m., Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Vincent Meaker was inspecting a tractor trailer that was on the side of the interstate when he noticed a stalled RV blocking the right westbound lane about 200 yards away.
Meaker went to the vehicle, which had Illinois plates, and helped push it to the shoulder of the road near the Trenton Road overpass, then returned to the inspection. The RV’s driver then got under the vehicle to repair it.
Shortly after, at about 3:10 p.m., Meaker heard squealing and saw another tractor trailer skidding sideways down the interstate. It struck the RV, instantly killing the driver, Roger Dale LaGrone, 65, of Temple Terrace, Fla.
A passenger in the RV, Kenneth R. Nichols, 67, of Ridgefarm, Ill, was taken to a hospital, mainly as a precaution.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Carl J. Anderson, 26, of North Baltimore, Ohio, was not hurt.
Tennessee Highway Patrol issued citations, but criminal charges will not be filed, according to a THP report.
Robert Smith
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Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers Vincent Meaker and Todd Pitts talk with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services Asst. Chief Chris Proctor about a fatal wreck on I-24 Thursday afternoon. The driver of a motor home was working it on the shoulder of the interstate. He was killed when it was struck bay a tractor-trailer.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers Vincent Meaker and Todd Pitts talk with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services Asst. Chief Chris Proctor about a fatal wreck on I-24 Thursday afternoon.
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Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers Vincent Meaker and Todd Pitts talk with Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services Asst. Chief Chris Proctor about a fatal wreck on I-24 Thursday afternoon. / THE LEAF-CHRONICLE/ROBERT SMITH
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CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — A Florida man was killed Thursday afternoon when a tractor trailer smashed into the motor home he was repairing on the side of Interstate 24.
At about 3 p.m., Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Vincent Meaker was inspecting a tractor trailer that was on the side of the interstate when he noticed a stalled RV blocking the right westbound lane about 200 yards away.
Meaker went to the vehicle, which had Illinois plates, and helped push it to the shoulder of the road near the Trenton Road overpass, then returned to the inspection. The RV’s driver then got under the vehicle to repair it.
Shortly after, at about 3:10 p.m., Meaker heard squealing and saw another tractor trailer skidding sideways down the interstate. It struck the RV, instantly killing the driver, Roger Dale LaGrone, 65, of Temple Terrace, Fla.
A passenger in the RV, Kenneth R. Nichols, 67, of Ridgefarm, Ill, was taken to a hospital, mainly as a precaution.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Carl J. Anderson, 26, of North Baltimore, Ohio, was not hurt.
Tennessee Highway Patrol issued citations, but criminal charges will not be filed, according to a THP report.
