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A 33-year-old Ooltewah woman was killed Friday morning when her car struck an embankment along a stretch of Interstate 75 near Cleveland, Tenn., according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Meredith Murray-Tolley was driving her 2008 Hyundai south about 11:40 a.m. when her vehicle left the road, veered into the median between two guardrails, then struck the underpass barrier near mile marker 20, according to THP spokeswoman Dalya Qualls.
Murray-Tolley, whose car was traveling about 70 mph, was wearing her seat belt at the time of the collision, investigators said. Paramedics pronounced her dead on arrival.
No other cars were involved in the incident, officials said.
The wreck caused one lane of the interstate to be closed for much of Friday afternoon, Qualls said.