Crash on pedestrian-heavy main strip in Tennessee's Gatlinburg injures 7

Seven people, including 2 pedestrians, person been injured successful a multivehicle clang successful the Tennessee tourer municipality of Gatlinburg

GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- Seven people, including 2 pedestrians, were injured successful a multivehicle clang successful the Tennessee tourer municipality of Gatlinburg connected Sunday.

The mishap occurred astatine astir 4:20 p.m., erstwhile a minivan travelling done the mediate of the pedestrian-heavy downtown country accelerated unexpectedly, striking a idiosyncratic successful a crosswalk earlier colliding with respective different vehicles, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. One of the struck vehicles deed a roadside motion that fell and injured a 2nd pedestrian. Five different radical wrong 2 antithetic vehicles were injured arsenic well.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating, and aboriginal indications suggest the mishap whitethorn person been caused by a aesculapian emergency, according to the agency.

Gatlinburg is located the mountains of East Tennessee. It sits betwixt the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the country's astir visited nationalist park, and Pigeon Forge, location of Dollywood.

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