Knoxville Police, who are still investigating a fatal wrong-way accident on Interstate 40 in Knox County, have identified the man who died.
It happened yesterday morning near Strawberry Plains Pike. Preliminary investigation suggests that 43 year-old Rickey Hines of Alabama made a U-turn on I-40 East and started driving the wrong way when he collided with another car, both vehicles caught on fire.
Hines was pronounced dead at the scene while the driver of the second car was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
KPD officials say that a third vehicle drove through the debris and hit an unknown object before coming to rest in the median. The driver of that car was not injured.
