A
small car plowed into the back of a mail truck early yesterday, killing
one person in one of several chain-reaction collisions of 50 cars on a
fogbound highway near Nashville. The name of the deceased victim has
been identified as 28-year-old Paul Warren of the Nashville suburb of
Hendersonville, Tennessee. Police were treating the incident as four
separate wrecks that all happened within the span of a few minutes.
Police say the series of wrecks began at 6:56 a.m. Traffic stopped and
another pile-up happened. The third pile-up was the one that caused
Warren’s death. The fourth crash happened shortly afterwards. The wrecks
covered a two-mile stretch of road. Thick fog and black ice are
possible factors in the crashes. Eight people were taken to the hospital
with minor injuries and later released. Eight other people, two
children and six adults, were transported to another medical center with
non-life threatening injuries.
