CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – One person was killed in a wrong-way collision in Montgomery County that closed Interstate 24 East early Wednesday morning.
It happened near Exit 4 around 1:45 a.m.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Travis Plotzer told media that the car was traveling west in the eastbound lanes early Wednesday when it crashed into a commercial vehicle.
The man killed in the crash has been identified as 21-year-old Deashawn Thomas, a soldier at Fort Campbell, KY. He was a suspect in the deadly assault of his wife, 18-year-old Katelyn Thomas (Baldoni). Her body was found later Wednesday morning at an apartment on State Line Rd. in Clarksville.
A report from Tennessee Highway Patrol said Thomas was traveling at a high rate of speed on I-24 when he passed a semi-truck, made a U-turn, and hit the truck head-on.
Thomas’s vehicle came to a rest in the median after impact and caught fire.
The semi-truck driver, who was not injured, had swerved in an attempt to avoid the vehicle and came to rest on the right shoulder.
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