One Person Killed in Fiery I-75 Crash

One man was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 75, late Monday night.

According to a press release from the East Ridge Police Department, officers responded to I-75 at Ringgold Road on a reported vehicle crash. A pickup truck crashed at the Ringgold Rd overpass.

The vehicle had left the roadway in the 6700 block of Ringgold Rd, went airborne, and landed in the center storage lane of north bound I-75. The vehicle had struck the center wall and almost immediately caught fire.

Officers at the scene attempted to assist the driver of the vehicle but were unsuccessful due to the large amount of fire engulfing the vehicle. The driver was killed in the crash/ fire. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. This was a single vehicle crash and there were no other injuries.

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.