Two People Killed In Separate Saturday Morning Collisions In Nashville

From the City of Nashville:

March 20, 2021

Two persons were killed early today in separate vehicle collisions, one on Briley Parkway in the Hermitage Precinct, the other on I-24 west at Haywood Lane.

In the 1:30 a.m. Briley Parkway crash, a Nissan Versa traveling the wrong way in the northbound lanes rounded a curve and crashed head-on with a GMC Acadia. The driver of the Versa, Destinie Reed, 24, of Ashland City, died. She was not wearing a seatbelt. The three occupants of the Acadia were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries. They were wearing seatbelts.

In the 1:40 a.m. I-24 fatal collision, a pedestrian standing in the right travel lane was struck and killed by a Lexus sedan as the driver of the Lexus, Terry Jones, 38, of Murfreesboro, merged onto the exit ramp for Haywood Lane. The deceased is a man of Hispanic descent who carried no identification. Witnesses reported seeing him standing in the roadway with his back to traffic and his head looking up prior to being struck.

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