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This evening’s five-vehicle crash on Charlotte Pike at Brook Hollow Road claimed the life of a passenger in a Jeep Gladiator, the vehicle that started the chain of events.
The deceased is identified as Derek Doster, 36, of Kingston Springs.
The investigation to this point shows that the Jeep was traveling northeast on Charlotte Pike at a high rate of speed when the driver, Jonathan Mark Wingate, 21, also of Kingston Springs, lost control of the vehicle and then overcorrected. The Jeep rolled onto its driver side and began to slide, causing four other vehicles to crash. All parties were wearing seatbelts with the exception of Doster and Wingate. Doster died shortly after arriving at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Wingate was critically injured. A blood sample from him will be analyzed by the MNPD Crime Laboratory to determine whether alcohol or drugs were a factor in this fatal crash.
Original source can be found here.
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