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Police shut down a Clarksville road for a while Sunday night while they investigated a deadly hit-and-run crash. Clarksville Police say the two-vehicle crash happened at approximately 7:50 p.m. along Peachers Mill Road near W. Allen Griffey Road. Witnesses reported that a red Ford Fusion was involved and didn’t stop. The other car hit a pole and came to rest off the road. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. No additional details have been released about this hit-and-run crash.

At their monthly meeting tonight, the Wilson County Commission will consider raising the county’s wheel tax by $50 to help increase pay for the county’s employees. If passed, the wheel tax would increase from $25 to $75, effective Jan. 1st. Budget Director Aaron Maynard told the commission’s budget committee that increasing the wheel tax would raise around $6 million.

A mid-morning boom that neighbors thought was a lightning strike, a sonic boom even, was something else. That boom, which shook homes over half a mile from the blast site, was caused by a home explosion investigators believe to be resulting from a natural gas leak. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but investigators with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation believe the blast was intentional.

A law that lowers the threshold for enhanced DUI sentences takes effect on July 1st. The new blood alcohol content (BAC) threshold goes from 0.2 to 0.15. The legal BAC limit in Tennessee is still 0.08. But now, if someone registers at nearly twice that, they could face stiffer penalties. The current law forces anyone who blows a 0.2 BAC and is found guilty of the charge to spend 7 days in jail. Soon, that number will be down to 1.5.