Charges pending in crash that injured trooper

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. --

UPDATE 5:31 p.m.

According to Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Derrick Watson, 23 year-old Kesha Miller of Chuckey may be charged with a crime for her role in the crash.

"No charges have been placed at this time," Watson said. "At this point in time it looks like she failed to yield to the emergency vehicle that was there."

Watson says he will hand over his final report to the district attorney Friday. It will then be up to the DA to decide whether or not Miller will be charged, Watson said.

Regardless, he hopes people remember the move over law when they approach a parked emergency vehicle on the side of the road.

"Vehicles, they have a tremendous amount of force whenever they are traveling down the roadway," Watson said. "Just some way or another, move away from us to give us that extra safe barrier."

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UPDATE 3:45 p.m.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol has issued more information regarding this morning’s crash on 11-E. The crash involved two cars and a THP patrol car.

According to the accident report, the trooper, Sgt. Diane Mays, was assisting the driver of a Toyota MRZ which had earlier run off the road into the median.

At this time, Mays’ car, a THP Crown Victoria, was stopped in the left northbound lane of Highway 11-E.

Then, a Nissan Versa driven by Kesha Miller of Chuckey, Tenn. was being driven northbound on Highway 11-E. Reports state that Miller failed to see the trooper and struck her car in the right rear corner.

Upon impact, the trooper’s car spun around and traveled into the median â€" where it hit the Toyota.

The third car and its driver continued traveling to the right and came to rest off the shoulder in the grass.

Mays was transported to the hospital for minor injuries and has now been treated and released. Miller, the driver of the Nissan, was also taken to the hospital for minor injuries and was also treated and released.

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Traffic is moving again on a Tri-Cities road after a three car crash involving a Tennessee Highway Patrol vehicle.

It happened just before 10 this morning on Highway 11-E in Washington County Tennessee near the Greene County line.

According to the highway patrol a THP officer pulled a car over in the median near Clear Springs Road.

Another car slammed into the back to the trooper. That driver had to be taken to the hospital.

The condition of the driver is still unclear.

Highway 11-E reopened about an hour later.

No word yet on what charges, if any, will be filed.