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A fatal crash shut down State Route 109 in Wilson County on Tuesday afternoon. The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) reported a single-vehicle crash just before 2 p.m. on 109 at Knollwood Landing. All southbound lanes of the route had been closed for part of the afternoon. A preliminary crash report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) indicated that the vehicle was traveling north when it crossed all lanes of traffic and ran off the road. It continued off the roadway and struck both a driveway and a dirt embankment before flipping multiple times.

A man is dead after he was hit by a CSX freight train just after 9:30 Monday night in Madison. Officials said the video from the train showed the man sitting on the railroad tracks before he was hit. The train’s operator reportedly told law enforcement that they tried to warn the man but he made no attempts to get out of the way. The pedestrian has not been identified. No other information about the incident was immediately released.

A Hendersonville man was found guilty on 54 counts related to sexual exploitation of a minor on Tuesday. In November 2022, Hendersonville detectives executed a search warrant at Jay Chandler’s residence and seized numerous electronic devices. Assistant District Attorney General Nathan Nichols said that a search of those devices “revealed thousands of images depicting the sexual abuse of children.” Sumner County Judge Dee David Gay found Chandler guilty as charged. He faces a potential sentence of up to 416 years.

Police in Hendersonville are on the lookout for two alleged auto thieves. Based on fingerprints found inside a stolen car, authorities developed two names. One of the suspects has a violent criminal history out of Nashville. Hendersonville Police shared a video showing the suspects driving multiple stolen vehicles. Those fingerprints led police to announce 21-year-olds Terrain Johnson and Anthony Chambers as the prime suspects in the case. The two are being charged with two counts of theft of a motor vehicle over $10,000 and one count of attempted theft of a motor vehicle over $10,000.