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Latest update from Direct local · WFMY News 2: 2 college cyclists killed, 7 injured in Tennessee car crash; driver arrested. Latest update from NBC News: Authorities say the 69-year-old driver is now in custody and has been charged with vehicular homicide. Two Tennessee college team cyclists were killed, seven others were injured and a driver was criminally charged after he struck team members who were training on a road Wednesday, officials said. The crash around 9 a.m. on Highway 19 in Carter County killed Milligan University sophomores Haylan Engdahl and Brayden Rogers, the small Christian liberal arts college and the state Highway Patrol said. “I would like to invite the entire community into prayer with us, into grief with the families, with us, and into deep prayer for the families of those we have lost,” university President Stephen Waers said at a news conference. The driver of the vehicle, John Benfield, 69, of Newland, North Carolina, is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle by recklessness, First Judicial District Attorney General Steven Finney said. In addition to the people who died, seven other members of that team were injured, Highway Patrol Maj. Sam Rogers said he passed by the accident.
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Driver arrested. Online jail records showed that Benfield had been booked and did not indicate that he had bonded out.
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Latest update from NBC News: Authorities say the 69-year-old driver is now in custody and has been charged with vehicular homicide. Two Tennessee college team cyclists were killed, seven others were injured and a driver was criminally charged after he struck team members who were training on a road Wednesday, officials said. The crash around 9 a.m. on Highway 19 in Carter County killed Milligan University sophomores Haylan Engdahl and Brayden Rogers, the small Christian liberal arts college and the state Highway Patrol said. “I would like to invite the entire community into prayer with us, into grief with the families, with us, and into deep prayer for the families of those we have lost,” university President Stephen Waers said at a news conference. The driver of the vehicle, John Benfield, 69, of Newland, North Carolina, is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle by recklessness, First Judicial District Attorney General Steven Finney said. In addition to the people who died, seven other members of that team were injured, Highway Patrol Maj. Sam Rogers said he passed by the accident.
Latest update from Direct local · WFMY News 2: 2 college cyclists killed, 7 injured in Tennessee car crash; driver arrested. Latest update from NBC News: Authorities say the 69-year-old driver is now in custody and has been charged with vehicular homicide. Two Tennessee college team cyclists were killed, seven others were injured and a driver was criminally charged after he struck team members who were training on a road Wednesday, officials said. The crash around 9 a.m. on Highway 19 in Carter County killed Milligan University sophomores Haylan Engdahl and Brayden Rogers, the small Christian liberal arts college and the state Highway Patrol said. “I would like to invite the entire community into prayer with us, into grief with the families, with us, and into deep prayer for the families of those we have lost,” university President Stephen Waers said at a news conference. The driver of the vehicle, John Benfield, 69, of Newland, North Carolina, is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle by recklessness, First Judicial District Attorney General Steven Finney said. In addition to the people who died, seven other members of that team were injured, Highway Patrol Maj. Sam Rogers said he passed by the accident.
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