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To stream WFMY News 2 on your phone, you need the WFMY News 2 app. Example video title will go here for this video HAMPTON, Tennessee — Two members of a university cycling team were killed and seven more people were injured Wednesday when a car collided with a group of riders in northeastern Tennessee, state officials said. Milligan University, a private Christian school with just over 1,200 students, said 11 of its cyclists were out together on a morning training ride when they were struck by a driver in Hampton, about 11 miles from the campus in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The county’s district attorney, Steve Finney, said 69-year-old John Benfield, of North Carolina, has been arrested and faces two counts of reckless vehicular homicide and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle with recklessness. Milligan sophomores Haylan Engdahl, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, and Brayden Rogers, of Huntsville, Alabama, were killed in the crash, university President Stephen Waers said.
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2 college cyclists killed, 7 injured in Tennessee car crash; driver arrested.
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To stream WFMY News 2 on your phone, you need the WFMY News 2 app. Example video title will go here for this video HAMPTON, Tennessee — Two members of a university cycling team were killed and seven more people were injured Wednesday when a car collided with a group of riders in northeastern Tennessee, state officials said. Milligan University, a private Christian school with just over 1,200 students, said 11 of its cyclists were out together on a morning training ride when they were struck by a driver in Hampton, about 11 miles from the campus in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The county’s district attorney, Steve Finney, said 69-year-old John Benfield, of North Carolina, has been arrested and faces two counts of reckless vehicular homicide and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle with recklessness. Milligan sophomores Haylan Engdahl, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, and Brayden Rogers, of Huntsville, Alabama, were killed in the crash, university President Stephen Waers said.
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