Early morning crash claims two lives
Elizabeth Green
Diversity Institute Fellow
07.27.04
Metro police are investigating an early morning crash that claimed the lives of two men Monday.
Eric Lovell, 25, of Hendersonville, was driving at a high rate of speed when he lost control of a 2000 Chevrolet Camaro on Tusculum Road near Coleridge Drive, police said.
According to the police report, the car hit a mailbox, utility pole and a large tree. Lovell was thrown from the car, and his passenger, 26-year-old Nathan Hartman of Bess Court South in Antioch, was also killed, police said. Neither man was wearing a seatbelt, police said.
Police speculated that alcohol and excessive speed contributed to the 3 a.m. accident.
Family members could not be reached for comment.