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Tennessee groom killed in car crash while traveling to honeymoon day after wedding
By Richard Pollina,
2024-03-09
A newlywed husband was killed in a car crash Monday while traveling to his honeymoon with his bride — one day after the couple tied the knot, according to reports.
Daniel Palacios III, 27, and his wife, Christy Carrillo, 23, were driving on I-40 in Tennessee when their Toyota 4Runner swerved off the road and struck a dirt embankment, the Tennessee highway patrol told WREG Memphis .
The couple’s pickup truck then flipped multiple times before it crossed into oncoming traffic and was hit by a semi-truck.
Palacios was killed in the crash, the Fayette County fire chief confirmed to the outlet. Carillo sustained injuries but survived.
Palacios — an independently contracted truck driver — was not wearing his seatbelt when the fatal crash happened, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
He said his daughter-in-law was “banged up and emotionally distraught” from the crash and losing her husband but has since been released from the hospital.
“She will be OK,” he told the outlet.
Video of the aftermath of the tragic wreck was shared to WREG by a passerby.
“When I got closer to the wreck, looks like back tire might’ve blown out and hit the median and flipped about twenty times,” Dennis Vann told the outlet.
Vann, a frequent traveler on I-40, described the extent of the damage from the wreck as the most severe he had ever seen.
Palacios Jr. wrote a touching message on Facebook that his son’s funeral will be held on March 16 and thanked everyone for their “expressions of love and most of all the prayers” while the family grapples with the tragedy.
The newlywed husband’s death is the latest tragedy to take place on I-40 in Tennessee.
Chilling video emerged showing the single-engine airplane crashing alongside the highway and erupting into a fiery blaze moments after the pilot warned the plane, “I won’t make it.”
All five victims died in the crash.
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