News Tagged ‘Tennessee

Weekend ATV accidents claim the lives of 2 young women

ATV trailsLast weekend was a deadly one for two young women who lost their lives in separate all-terrain vehicle accidents. One of the accidents, involving a teenage girl, occurred in Jonesborough, Tennessee. The other accident involved a woman who had just celebrated her 21st birthday and occurred about 200 miles west in the community of Hope Mills, North Carolina. Both of the accidents happened on Sunday night.

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ATV crash kills one Georgia teen, seriously injures another

Honda atv 3A Georgia teenager died and another one was seriously injured Saturday night in an all-terrain vehicle crash. The accident occurred in the southern part of rural Chattooga County, situated just south of Chattanooga, Tenn. and east of Ft. Payne, Ala.

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Young Alabama mother dies in ATV accident

alabama map abstract 100x10021-year-old Jessica Lynne Braithwaite, a resident of Elkmont, Alabama, a community north of Huntsville near the Tennessee line, died last week after losing control of the all-terrain vehicle she was driving. Braithewaite’s ran off the road and into a barbed wire fence. According to authorities, both Braithwaite and 26-year-old Jonathan Barnes, a passenger, were thrown from the vehicle. Braithewaite died at the scene while Barnes was airlifted to Huntsville Hospital, where he remains in serious condition in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.

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Parents of Tenn. girl injured in Rhino rollover sue Yamaha

Greg and Theresa Mitchell of Clarksville, Tennessee have filed a personal injury lawsuit against Motor Corporation for injuries that their 11-year-old daughter sustained when the Yamaha Rhino she was riding in rolled over.

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