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12 Hurt in Van Crash

89 views · Published 8 April 2013 · 0:59 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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On Monday morning an adult daycare van overturned sending a dozen people to the hospital.        Butterflies in the stomach so to speak, said Fredrick Studivan, who was one of the first people to arrive after the accident, just praying immediately that everything was okay.  Dozens of Hamilton County EMS personnel and firefighters worked to free people from the vehicle. The organized chaos made Studivan's heart drop. I stopped and I saw my niece, said Studivan, and it just so happens it was her company. She was crying and I thought she was involved in the accident.Studivan's niece is the co-owner of Serenity Adult Daycare. One of her company vans was crossing the intersection of Standifur Gap and Hickory Valley road around 8:15 Monday morning. That's when the passenger's lives flipped upside down. A white van ran into another white van, which was carrying 12 passengers, said Bruce Garner, the Chattanooga Fire Department Public Information Officer. Eyewitnesses say the utility van ran a red light on Hickory Valley and collided with the Serenity van carrying seniors. They had to peel off part of the top on the front of the van to get some of the passengers out, said Garner. All twelve passengers were taken to area hospitals. Eight of them loaded into ambulances on stretchers.  They were being very very careful when they were pulling them out of the van, said Garner. Nearby residents say this particular intersection is notorious for wrecks.  This intersection is very dangerous, said Mary Anne Little, people always try and run the light.Little has traveled these roads for 50 years and has seen many accidents. I coast through with my foot on the break because you never know who's going to run it, said Little.Studivan's worry, while initially for his niece,  is now focused on the passengers. Once we found out everyone was okay, that was the main concern, said Studivan, lives are more important than vehicles, insurance payments, whatever.       The driver and two passengers of the utility van walked away without injury. Depend on us to keep you updated on the passengers conditions.

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