Good thing we have local news outlets here in Knoxville, so we don’t have to depend on wire services to tell us what’s happening locally. Oh wait:
Six die in head-on I-75 crash
By Associated Press
January 2, 2004
A Tennessee man driving the wrong way on Interstate 75 collided head-on early today with a Michigan-registered car carrying five people. Authorities said all six died.
The accident happened about 12:15 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the interstate about 15 miles east of Knoxville near Lenoir City.
Lenoir City is southwest of Knoxville, not east of it. But I’m sure most KnoxNews readers wouldn’t know the difference anyway, right?
UPDATE: Finally a KNS story. A vacationing family of five was killed by a driver who may have been intoxicated. What a horrible sight.
ANOTHER UPDATE: What’s going on around here?
At least 11 people have died in wrong-way crashes in East Tennessee in recent weeks, including two on New Year’s Eve in Knoxville, officials say.
Sheesh.