Three Injured in Head-On Crash on McBrien Road

Three people were injured in a head-on car crash, Friday night on McBrien Road.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, the incident happened in the 1300 block of McBrien Road just before 10:30 p.m. When fire units arrived to the two-car crash, one person was trapped in one of the vehicles. Crews used hydraulic rescue tools to free the trapped person, he said.

A total of three people were taken by Lifeguard ambulance to a local hospital. The condition of those injured are not known by authorities, Chief Williams said.

The East Ridge Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash, Chief Williams said.

“Great work by all that were involved,” Chief Williams posted on the City of East Ridge’s Fire and Rescue Facebook page.

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.