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The county’s district attorney, Steve Finney, said a 69-year-old
man from North Carolina had been arrested and faced two counts
of reckless vehicular homicide and five counts of aggravated
assault by vehicle with recklessness.
Milligan sophomores Haylan Engdahl, of Winthrop Harbor,
Illinois, and Brayden Rogers, of Huntsville, Alabama, were
killed in the crash, university President Stephen Waers said.
The other student-athletes were transported to the nearby
Johnson City Medical Center, he said.
“We need to help our brothers and sisters bear burdens that are
too great for any one person to carry alone,” Waers said in an
emotional video message shared with the school community. He
urged students to come together in prayer for their injured
peers.
As of Wednesday evening, four students were in critical
condition, two others were stable but remained in the hospital,
and one student had been discharged, said the hospital's trauma
medical director, Dr. Bracken Burns.
Earlier this year, the Milligan University men's cycling team
won a team time trial national championship at the USA Cycling
Collegiate Road Nationals in Wisconsin.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol was still investigating the
circumstances of the crash, said Maj. Roy Brown. The speed limit
on the section of Highway 19 where the the crash occurred is 50
miles per hour (about 80 kilometers per hour), officials said.
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