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12. Injured. 42. The 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster was a traffic collision that occurred on the morning of December 11, 1990, on a section of Interstate 75 (I-75) near Calhoun, Tennessee, during dense fog which obscured the visibility of motorists. The collisions occurred in an area where fog is common and had been the site of previous multi ...
Calhoun is situated around the junction of U.S. Route 11, which connects the town to Athens to the north and Charleston and Cleveland to the south, and State Route 163 (Bowater Road), which connects Calhoun to U.S. Route 411 in Delano to the east and Interstate 75 (Exit 36) to the west.
I-75 enters Tennessee on the eastern side of East Ridge, a southern suburb of Chattanooga. Less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) into Tennessee is an interchange with US 41 (unsigned US 76). About a mile (1.6 km) later, at exit 2, is a three-way interchange with the eastern terminus of I-24, which runs west into downtown Chattanooga and to Nashville.
Of the 5,304 fatal car accidents in Tennessee between 2017 and 2021, 18.3% happened at an intersection, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data analyzed by the personal ...
List of traffic collisions (2000–present) List of traffic collisions by death toll.
Multiple-vehicle collision. A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pile-up or multi-car collision), [1] is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic collisions. [citation needed]
Memphis tanker truck disaster. On December 23, 1988, a tractor-trailer tanker truck hauling liquefied propane crashed on an exit ramp at the Interstate 40 / Interstate 240 (I-40/I-240) interchange in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, US. The crash ruptured the tank; the leaking gas exploded, setting multiple vehicles and structures on fire.
FIPS code. 47-48000 [6] Website. City of Memphis. Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [7] Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after ...