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Rainy weather was blamed for the traffic death of a woman early Thursday on Interstate 24, a state trooper said.

Driver Hasaya Chansuthus, 25, of Nashville, died about 2:30 a.m. when her Chevrolet Cobalt crashed into a pine tree head-on off the interstate westbound toward Nashville between the Almaville Road and state Route 840 exits, said Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Marvin.

The rain probably caused Chansuthus to hydroplane and sideswipe a Volkswagen Golf driven by Michael West, 28, of Melbourne, Fla., he said. The impact caused the Volkswagen to spin around and rest in the emergency lane.

West and his passenger suffered minor injuries. Emergency workers extricated Chansuthus from the wreckage. The air bag did not deploy.

Contributing factors to the crash were the weather and her failure to maintain her lane.

Chansuthus was the 31st traffic fatality in 2009 in Rutherford County.

 
 
 
Tagged under  Hasaya Chansuthus, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Traffic fatality


Member Opinions:
By: PhilHarper on 1/1/10
Lisa:
I assume "failure to maintain her lane" is from a police report. Is that a euphemism for speeding?

Phil Harper
890-0904

By: ALong745 on 1/1/10
Phil, your comment is distasteful.

By: aeckfam on 1/1/10
You can hyrdoplane in certain weather conditions on certain stretches of road without speeding. I've never heard police try to refrain from citing speed as a cause for a crash (fatal or nonfatal).

By: lupusman on 1/2/10
Why didn't the airbag deploy? That's a question that needs to be resolved. If I was the owner of a Chevy Cobalt I would be very concerned.

By: Geana on 1/2/10
My car hydroplaned doing only 30 miles an hour when applying the brakes approaching a red light. Typically it wouldn't be a problem but apparently there was enough of large puddle to cause the effect. Luckily, there were no vehicles ahead of me and I was alert enough to avoid collision on the right or left. Still shook me up and made me grateful I wasn't driving on a highway at 70mph. Whew.


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