On Thursday, March 24, a pedestrian was hit and killed on the Interstate 240 near Perkins Road.
According to Memphis police, the accident happened shortly before 6 a.m. when 49 year old Frank James of West Memphis walked onto the Interstate 240 and was hit by a tow truck in the westbound lanes. The impact knocked him into other lanes where he was then hit by several more vehicles.
It appears that the accident happened between Perkins Road and Getwell when James left his car on the roadway following a collision between a tow truck and another car but when he left his car he was hit himself.
James was pronounced dead at the scene.
This is the second pedestrian accident in two days as the previous day 55 year old Kevin Jordan was killed by a runaway trailer on Park Avenue near Echles Street. The trailer had come loose from a 2008 Dodge Ram headed west on Park Avenue.
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