Motorcycle Passenger Dies In Crash
One Taken To Vanderbilt Medical Center
POSTED: 8:25 am CDT July 14,
2009
UPDATED: 1:25 pm CDT July 14,
2009
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Police are investigating to see who may be to blame for a fatal crash late Monday night at a busy Rutherford County intersection.
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Authorities said a motorcycle headed north on North Lowry Street collided at 10:38 p.m. with a car in the opposite lane that was turning left onto Sam Ridley Parkway.The driver of the motorcycle, Paul Johnson, 53, of Lavergne, was flown to Vanderbilt Medical Center with serious injuries. The co-rider, Linda Marlene Riggs, 55, of Lavergne, was pronounced dead at the scene.The driver of the car, 18-year-old Darnell Horton, and passengers in the car were not injured.Copyright 2009 by WSMV.com. All rights reserved.
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