Law enforcement search for evidence after a motorcycle fatality on U.S. 153 near Academy Sports in Chattanooga.In three-and-a-half hours Wednesday night, three separate wrecks in Chattanooga left two dead and one in critical condition at an area hospital.
Police said Thursday they believed the third victim, an unnamed female, would become the third fatality from Wednesday’s unusual string of deadly crashes.
• Around 9 p.m. Wednesday, 44-year-old Deani Jackson Locke was killed in the 5900 block of Highway 153 after she parked her motorcycle and walked into a lane of traffic, where a northbound truck hit her.
Police said they believe Locke was picking something up that had fallen from her motorcycle.
Eddie Gene Davis Jr., 43, was headed north and hit Locke. Police said Davis originally thought he hit a deer.