KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Authorities say two people in a truck have died after it crashed into a home in Knox County.
Knoxville Fire Department Capt. D. J. Corcoran told The Knoxville News Sentinel that the crash early Wednesday apparently ruptured the gas tank on the truck, setting both it and the home ablaze.
Homeowner Dennis Hoffman said the impact happened in an empty bedroom on the other side of the home, but it awakened him and his wife.
“It shook the bed and woke us up,” Hoffman said. “The whole house shook. We knew there had been a wreck.”
Neither was injured, and they quickly got out of the house.