One Hurt in Wreck on I-24

One person was airlifted to Erlanger after a single-car accident Saturday afternoon on Interstate 24.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, a wheel came off a vehicle traveling east-bound and struck the windshield of a vehicle traveling west at about 12:45 p.m.. The driver of the car that was struck by the tire was trapped inside the vehicle.

Chief Williams said emergency personnel worked for about 30 minutes to free the driver of the crashed car. Life Force air ambulance transported the injured driver to Erlanger. Chief Williams said there is no information about the condition of the injured driver.

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.