Tullahoma Man Killed in I-40 Crash

Three people have were killed after a fiery crash on Interstate 40 in Cumberland County on Friday afternoon including a man from Tullahoma.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, a semi with no trailer was traveling east on Interstate 40 and traveled through the median into westbound traffic, crashing into a tractor-trailer and a passenger vehicle.
The trucks caught fire. The drivers of both trucks and the passenger vehicle were killed. A passenger in the passenger vehicle was taken by helicopter to a Knoxville hospital.
THP released the names of the crash victims late Friday. Officials say 44-year-old Erik New, of Tullahoma, was driving a tractor-trailer with no trailer eastbound on I-40 when, for unknown reasons, he crossed the median into the westbound lanes of traffic.
The tractor-trailer hit a 2016 Nissan Sentra driven by 50-year-old Nancy Tooley, of Tompkinsville, Ky. The Sentra went airborne and started rolling before coming to a stop on the shoulder.
The tractor-trailer then hit another tractor-trailer that was hauling automobiles head on. Both tractor-trailers stopped in the middle of the westbound lanes and burst into flames, THP said.
A fourth vehicle swerved into the median to avoid the crash and hit several pieces of debris, THP said.
New, Tooley and the driver of the second tractor-trailer, Noel Feliciano, 60, of Winchester, Va., were pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger from Tooley’s car, 66-year-old Jack Tooley, was flown to UT Medical Center in Knoxville.
The driver of the fourth vehicle and their passenger were uninjured.
It took around 6 hours to completely reopen the interstate.