Former Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Rien Long is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as the result of injuries he received in a single-car crash on I-40 near downtown just before midnight.
Long, 26, drove his 2005 Ford Mustang onto I-40 from the Broadway ramp at a high rate of speed. As the Mustang approached the bottom of the ramp, it went into a clockwise slide, left the roadway, traveled up an embankment, and collided with a rock wall on the driver’s side. The car then rolled over and fell back to the roadway, landing on its roof.
A passenger in the car, Wesley Stephens, 28, of Nashville, was transported to Vanderbilt with non-critical injuries.
The investigation to this point shows that excessive speed is the contributing factor to the crash.
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