HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Several were injured in a head-on crash in Hendersonville, with at least one person requiring transportation to an area hospital via helicopter Friday afternoon.
The crash happened on New Shackle Island Road and all northbound lanes of the road are closed at Stop Thirty Road.
Other patients were transported to Skyline Hospital and Hendersonville Hospital via ground transportation. The status of those injured is not clear at this time.
It is unclear when the road will reopen. No other information was immediately released.
Thomas Bramall began his season at Gateshead, brandishing a couple of yellow cards in the National League side’s 1-0 win over Solihull Moors. But he ended it entrusted with a game of infinitely greater significance, unleashing a howl of righteous fury in the claret-and-blue half of Birmingham when, with Morgan Rogers celebrating what looked like a priceless Aston Villa goal, he mistakenly blew for a free-kick to Manchester United. That single moment of haste – borne of a belief that Rogers had stolen possession from Altay Bayindir, despite the goalkeeper having no control of the ball – might in calmer circumstances be shrugged off as innocent human error. Except this occasion was anything but ordinary. It was a £100 million match, in which one horrendous decision set off a chain reaction that threatened to upend the entire Villa project.
Consider the ramifications: the fact that Villa will not be playing in the Champions League for a second year running dilutes their appeal for the best available players. Suddenly, their plans to tie loanees Marcus Asensio and Marcus Rashford to permanent deals are in serious doubt. Of greater concern, though, is whether Unai Emery can keep his existing team together. Consigned to the boondocks of the Europa League, Villa must walk an even more precarious tightrope to comply with the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules, with no option but to slash the 10th highest wage bill in Europe. Offloading Leon Bailey and Emiliano Martínez already felt inevitable. But could Rogers, said by the club not to be for sale at any price, follow them out of the door? The 22-year-old is already keenly coveted by Chelsea, today in a position to offer him superior European football.
It was no wonder that Emery stalked after Bramall down the Old Trafford tunnel, or that Ezri Konsa and Youri Tielemans wore the thousand-yard stares of players still processing a gruesome injustice. One point, it turned out, would have been enough to secure Villa’s Champions League place, and Rogers’ perfectly legal 73rd-minute strike should have left them on course for three. Instead, they finished behind Newcastle on goal difference, a fate that could signal the end of an era in which, against all odds, they gatecrashed the traditional cartel. At a stroke, the house that Emery built – sturdy, financially sustainable, the envy of the land – resembles a castle built on sand.
With emotions so raw, the natural instinct is to lash out. The target is Bramall, still relatively raw for a top-flight referee at 35 and now responsible for perhaps the worst blunder in recent Premier League history. Certainly it is the most consequential, depriving Villa of a potential nine-figure windfall for Champions League qualification. Emery stood like a statue on the touchline at the end, his eyes boring into Bramall. Not even a polite handshake from Ruben Amorim could divert his gaze, as he seethed silently over the young official’s gaffe in calling for the foul against Rogers that denied a legitimate goal. Bramall’s rush to blow the whistle before the ball crossed the line meant that the blunder could not be corrected by VAR. The Villa manager recognised his team had been undone by one of the costliest lapses ever committed, and that there was not a thing he could do about it.
