One person is dead and two are injured following an early morning semi-truck accident Friday on I-24 in Marion County.
At about 1 a.m. CDT on May 23, Tennessee Highway Patrol responded to a multivehicle accident on the westbound side of I-24, at mile marker 151.
According to the accident report, vehicle no. 1, a 2012 Volvo truck out of Mississippi, was being driven westbound at a reduced speed for an unknown reason by Ladarrius Montez Echoles, 21. Vehicle no. 2, a 2011 IHC truck out of Indiana, driven by Steven Deon Perkins, 36, of Georgia, was approaching at a higher rate of speed, and struck vehicle 1 in the rear.
Both trucks were hauling a trailer.
Perkins was killed on impact. Echoles and the passenger of vehicle 2, Torry Stevenson, 35, of Mississippi, was listed as injured on the police report, but no specifics were given.