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Child Killed in Interstate 40 Crash Near Monterey, TN

An 8-month-old baby was killed and two adults were injured in an auto accident on I - 40 near Monterey, Tennessee.  The infant was properly restrained in a child seat, and the seat was properly installed according to a spokes person for the Tennessee Highway patrol.  Another infant in the same vehicle was not injured.

The collision occurred when an SUV being driven by Adrian Castro Huerta of Vinita, OK was traveling west hit a wheel which had come off a vehicle that was being driven in the eastbound lane by Matthew Presley of Cookeville, TN.   

Presley's left front wheel came off his 1992 Ford F150 pick-up and crossed the median into the oncoming vehicle in the westbound lane.  Huerta's vehicle collided with the lose wheel and tire causing him to lose control of his vehicle.  The vehicle rolled over several times killing the infant in the process.  

Presley, the driver of the truck which lost it's wheel, was not injured.  

The report did not indicate why the wheel came off or who last put the wheel and tire on Presley's Truck.  

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