Three Injured in Sunday Car Wreck

Photo courtesy of Frank Pate

Three people were taken to a local hospital, Sunday morning, after a multi-car accident on Ringgold Road.

According to East Ridge Fire Chief Mike Williams, the accident happened just after 9:30 a.m. in the 4300 block of Ringgold Road. Three cars were involved in the accident in which one of the occupants of a vehicle was entrapped.

Firefighters used hydraulic and electric tools to free the person trapped in the car, Chief Williams said.

Three people were taken by Pucket EMS to the hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, officials said.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.