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Two killed in Smokies car crash

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Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Two people died during a three-vehicle collision at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A head-on collision occurred between a Volkswagen Passat headed south on Newfound Gap Road and a GMC Yukon going north. Both drivers — 64-year-old James P. Henning of St. Ann, Missouri, and 53-year-old Rodney W. Schwartz of Sevierville, Tennessee — died as a result of their injuries. Neither vehicle carried a passenger. 

A Chevrolet Cruz traveling northbound rear-ended the GMC Yukon, and all five occupants were transported to Leconte Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. 

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