MONTEAGLE, Tenn.
1 dead, 4 injured in I-24 crash
The Tennessee Highway Patrol said one person died and four were hurt in an early morning crash on Monteagle Mountain that shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 24 for several hours Sunday.
According to the THP, an 82-year-old man driving the wrong way was killed when his car hit another head-on and then was struck by a tractor-trailer.
The THP said John Iwao Nagata, of Huntsville, Ala., was driving a Toyota Venza west in the eastbound lanes at mile marker 135 when he hit an oncoming Chrysler minivan head-on. Then a Kenworth tractor-trailer hit Nagata’s car.