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Car Crashes, Burns on Ringgold Road

October 5, 2019 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article Leave a Comment

The driver of a car that crashed, flipped on its top and caught fire escaped with minor injuries, early Saturday morning.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, East Ridge fire and police were dispatched to the 5500 block of Ringgold Road at 12:39 a.m. on a vehicle crash.

When first responders arrived they found a car had struck a power pole, flipped on its top and was on fire. The driver had crawled out on his own prior to help arriving. Chief Williams said the driver suffered only minor injuries. The fire was quickly extinguished.

ERPD is investigating the cause of the accident.

Filed Under: FEATURED POSTS, News

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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