Two dead, multiple injured after two-vehicle crash in oldham

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – Two people were killed and three others were injured in a deadly crash involving an ambulance in Tennessee, according to law enforcement.

I-40 East in Knoxville is back open after a deadly multi-vehicle crash shut down the interstates Saturday morning.

According to the Knoxville Police Department, officers responded to I-40 East just west of Midway Road just after 5:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Based on the investigation conducted at the scene, police say two eastbound vehicles were involved in a rear-end crash. One vehicle ended up in a travel lane, and the other vehicle overturned and rolled across all three lanes, landing off the road in the median.

A third vehicle became involved after a passerby stopped to help the vehicle that was still stopped on the highway.

The vehicle of the person who stopped to help was then struck by a Priority Ambulance traveling to Cocke County that was unable to stop in time to avoid the collision, police said.

Both the helper and the driver of the vehicle that was stopped on the highway were pronounced dead at the scene.

On Monday, police identified the helper as 45-year-old Juan Carlos Herrera Gomez, of Knoxville, and the driver as 76-year-old Lee Boone, of Virginia.

The solely female driver of the overturned car in the median was thrown from the vehicle during the collision and suffered serious injuries before being taken to UT Medical Centre. The woman has been charged with DUI after police said that she may have been impaired when driving  and our crew members sustained minor injuries. We are cooperating fully with authorities as they investigate the circumstances of the accident.”

The two ambulance crew members inside only had minor injuries, according to police, and there were no patients in the vehicle at the time of the collision.

On Saturday night, Priority Ambulance submitted the following statement to WVLT:

“Priority Ambulance offers our sincere condolences to the families of those impacted by the multiple car collision this morning. All the people and families impacted by this sad incident are in our thoughts and prayers. It is confirmed that one of our ambulances was used in the incident.

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