United States: Tennessee mourns the deaths of 6 girls in a terrible accident

Tennessee is going from bad to worse. And America is sorry. Sunday, before a young woman killed 6 people at a Nashville college and days later fierce storms raged across the land, 6 girls died in what was one of the worst car crashes of the year.

The girls died after the car in which they were traveling with an adult man and woman, a red Toyota Camry, overturned near Exit 24 on I-24 West in Robertson at 2 a.m.

The flip was the product of a collision with a concrete barrier that was under a bridge. The impact he ejected the girls and the woman by rolling at full speed. The girls died instantly. The adult is serious.

“From what we saw it was a very serious rollover accident and it appeared that several patients had been ejected,” said the Robertson County EMS chief, Brent Dyeraccording to local NBC affiliate WSMV 4.

“One of the hardest things we will ever do, as anyone in emergency services, is realize there is nothing you can do for a child,” Dyer said.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol reported A vandalized van was also involved in the scenebut did not indicate whether such a vehicle was involved in the Toyota rollover.

Authorities didn’t say whether passengers in the Toyota Camry were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, but Dyer has posted a safety alert for parents.

“I ask people to place their children in the proper restraints and I ask all who drive on the road to think about the result of impatience and the result of intolerance,” he said.

Four ambulances and a helicopter responded to the crash, according to county EMS.

deadly shot

This Monday, hours after the accident, three children and three adults were shot and killed at a Nashville elementary schoolin Tennessee, by a young woman later killed by the policeauthorities said.

The young woman was armed with “at least” two assault rifles and a pistol and opened fire inside the school The School of the Covenantthe Nashville police spokesman said.

Police officers rushed to the scene, and upon hearing gunfire upstairs, they jumped “immediately” and “killed” the attackerthe spokesman said, Don Aaron.

Some time later, police explained that the young woman was 28 years old and a resident of Nashville, adding that she was apparently a student at the school where she had committed the attack.

“My initial conclusions are that she was a student at this school at one point, but I’m not sure what year,” the Nashville police chief told reporters. john drake.

The American president, Joe Biden, again called on Congress to pass its ban on assault weapons following the Nashville shooting. “It’s heartbreaking, a family’s worst nightmare,” he said.