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Lawsuits name new allegations in 2015 Ooltewah crash on Interstate 75

It’s been one year since Kentucky truck driver Ben Brewer crashed his rig into slowed and stopped traffic on Interstate 75 in Ooltewah on June 25, 2015, killing six people.

And little has been resolved.

Brewer sits in the Hamilton County Jail awaiting the start of his November trial, with no option to bond out. He faces six counts of vehicular homicide and four counts of reckless aggravated assault.

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And Cool Runnings Express, the small trucking company Brewer worked for at the time of the crash, is still operating.