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    Update: 911 Tape Released From Sequatchie Fatal Wreck

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    A one car wreck leaves two people dead and one in critical condition.

    The crash happened around 1:15 central time in Dunlap. The only survivor had to be rushed to a Chattanooga hospital. That passenger is clinging to life at Erlanger, the other two died on the scene - we're told that if they had been wearing their seatbelts things might not have been this bad.

    Excerpt from 911 tape -

    Dispatcher: Sequatchie county 911...

    Alicia Nichols: yes I need help, we been in a wreck, and we're out on East Valley somewhere in a ditch...

    That call came in around one this morning. A short time later Annette Narramore found out her good friend, Felicia Rigsby, died on the scene.

    "It is totally destroyed I mean it's hard to stand there and look at the car," Narramore says.

    Rigsby died on impact in the driver's seat, her passengers, Jason Fields and Alicia Nichols were ejected from the car - Fields died a short time later, but Nichols managed to make this phone call to 9-1-1.

    Dispatcher: Is there anybody else in the car?

    Alicia Nichols: Yes...

    Dispatcher: who is the car with you?

    Alicia Nichols: my friend, two friends..

    Dispatcher: have you been drinking?

    Alicia Nichols : Yes, all of us...

    Dispatcher: You're all injured?

    Alicia Nichols: Yes...

    A THP official tells us they're still looking into the cause of the crash but confirms that all three passengers had been drinking and that none were wearing their seatbelts.

    Narramore tells us Rigsby has a three year old daughter, just graduated from EMS school, and planned to drive an ambulance.

    "She was too young to die, she should have stayed here she was serving and helping everyone she could," Narramore says.

    But now Narramore says Rigsby's daughter will need help as her family tries to cope with loss of a twenty one year old mother.

    "She loved her mom to death," Narramore says. "And it's sad now {her daughter} got to grow up without a mom."


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