A Motorcyclist and Child Killed in Sunday's I-40 Collision

Sunday's 9:30 p.m. collision between a motorcyclist and car on I-40 West near the Bellevue Newsom Station exit claimed the lives of the motorcyclist and a child who was a rear seat passenger in the vehicle.

The preliminary investigation shows that the driver of a 2003 Buick sedan, Delmas Wiseman III, was eastbound on I-40 when he lost control of his vehicle and entered into a sideways skid. The sedan crossed over into the westbound lanes of travel where the motorcyclist collided with the car's rear passenger side door.

The motorcyclist, who is tentatively identified as a 30-year-old White Bluff man, died at the scene. The Medical Examiner will make positive identification. A 3-year-old girl who appears to have been sitting in the rear passenger side seat was transported to Vanderbilt pediatrics where she died. She was not in a child safety seat. There were two other children in the back seat, ages 5 and 6. They were also taken to Vanderbilt Children's hospital where they are being treated for non-life threatening injuries. There was only one booster seat in the Buick.

Wiseman, 45, was also injured but refused treatment. There was no evidence of impairment at the scene. v