The driver of this Chevrolet Cavalier was flown by a medical helicopter to a hospital after apparently crashing through a guardrail and into a rock embankment, right, below a DOE haul road on Highway 95 in west Oak Ridge on Wednesday afternoon.
A car driver was flown by medical helicopter to a hospital after crashing through a guardrail and into a rock embankment below a U.S. Department of Energy haul road that crosses over Highway 95 in west Oak Ridge on Wednesday afternoon.
The name and condition of the driver weren’t immediately available after the one-vehicle, one-person crash. The collision occurred in a curvy section of Highway 95 near the western entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex on Bear Creek Road.
The haul road is used to move debris from the East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 site, to the Environmental Management Waste Management Facility west of Y-12.
The green two-door Chevrolet Cavalier appeared to crash into the haul road’s rock embankment a few feet above the ground, but well below the haul road, and leave an indentation in the rock pile and the rebar-like structure holding it in place.
Officials said the driver was flown by a University of Tennessee Lifestar medical helicopter from the nearby Horizon Center to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
Mark Caldwell says
I’m going to assume that the driver was exceeding the maximum speed limit.
More than 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attack. That same year (2001), more than 3,500 people were killed in automobile accidents in the U.S. per month. Where is the war on the terrorists driving on American roads?