MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two women were taken to a hospital in critical condition Wednesday afternoon after two vehicles collided on Interstate 240 West in Memphis, along the stretch of the loop near Getwell Road and Lamar Avenue.
State traffic officials received word of the wreck at 1:38 p.m., and Memphis Police Department officers were sent to the westbound lanes at the Getwell interchange. Police said officers were on the scene there at about 2:30 p.m. Police said both people hurt in the collision were women and that each was in critical condition when she was taken for treatment.
According to the Memphis Police Department, the wreck involved a pair of vehicles. State transportation traffic cameras showed a dark-colored vehicle destroyed in the impact, and crews spent time at the scene clearing the wreckage from the interstate.
Westbound drivers on I-240 felt the effects of the crash for roughly an hour and a half, with traffic congested behind the scene while the cleanup went on during the Wednesday afternoon drive.
Police have not said what led to the collision. The cause remains under investigation by the Memphis Police Department, and the names of the two women were not released.
That part of I-240 is close to Orange Mound, a Memphis neighborhood that sits between Lamar Avenue and Airways Boulevard. Orange Mound is bounded by Lamar Avenue to the west, Airways Boulevard to the east, Park Avenue to the north and Southern Avenue to the south, with Getwell Road also running along its eastern side near the interstate.
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