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Monday, June 2, 2008

[WEEKEND WRECK, WBBJ]
WBBJ-TV REPORTS U.S. HIGHWAY 51 SOUTH OF NEWBERN WAS CLOSED FOR SEVERAL HOURS SATURDAY MORNING AFTER A SEMI TRUCK DRIVER WALKED ACROSS THE INTERSTATE AND WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY A PASSING VAN. ACCORDING TO THP, CHARLES WORMUTH, OF CARBONDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, DIED IN THE ER AT DYERSBURG REGIONAL AFTER HE WAS TRANSPORTED FROM THE CRASH SCENE. SHIRLEY WHITE, OF BEAVER DAM, KENTUCKY, WAS DRIVING A MINIVAN NORTH ON HWY. 51 WHEN SHE CAME UPON THE SEMI IN FLAMES, WHICH WAS PARKED ON THE ROAD SHOULDER, AND CALLED 911. DURING THE CONVERSATION, WHITE TOLD THE DISPATCHER SHE "HAD JUST HIT THE TRUCK DRIVER" AND WAS PULLING OVER.

* A WRECK ON HIGHWAY 51 SOUTH OF NEWBERN SATURDAY MORNING CLOSES THE ROAD. SEMI DRIVER CHARLES WORMUTH OF CARBONDALE PENNSYLVANIA DIED AT THE DYERSBURG REGIONAL ER AFTER BEING STRUCK BY MINIVAN DRIVER SHIRLEY WHITE OF BEAVER DAM KENTUCKY. IT WAS REPORTED THAT WHITE CAME UPON THE PARKED SEMI IN FLAMES AND CALLED 911.. SHE TOLD THE DISPATCHER SHE "HAD JUST HIT THE TRUCK DRIVER" AND PULLED OFF.

[CARROLL CRASH, WBBJ]
A TWO-CAR CRASH IN CARROLL COUNTY TAKES THE LIFE OF THAT COUNTY'S ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, STEVE JACKSON. THE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY PATROL SAYS THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 8:30 FRIDAY MORNING ON HIGHWAY 70 NEAR HUNTINGDON, AND TIED UP TRAFFIC FOR SIX HOURS. WBBJ-TV SAYS INVESTIGATORS REPORT A JEEP WAS TRAVELLING WEST, WHEN IT CROSSED THE CENTER LINE, HITTING AND KILLING JACKSON WHO WAS HEADING EAST. THE DRIVER OF THE JEEP WAS TRANSPORTED TO AN AREA HOSPITAL, AND THEN AIRLIFTED TO THE MED IN MEMPHIS.

[CARDINALS]

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