RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – A 29-year-old has died following a Sunday night crash that occurred on Interstate 840.
The crash was reported just after 10 p.m. on I-840 near mile marker 50 in Rutherford County on Sunday, Aug. 6.
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According to Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP), the crash involved a passenger car and commercial vehicle.
A crash report provided by THP stated that 29-year-old Hytika Johnson of Ohio, was driving west on I-840 in a 2012 Nissan Altima when the car traveled off the left side of the roadway on a curve.
The report said the Nissan slid across two westbound lanes of traffic and then struck the back of a 1999 Freightliner Conventional tractor-trailer, which was parked on the right shoulder.
According to the crash report, no one was inside the tractor-trailer when the crash occurred.
No other information was immediately released.
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