MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman says she’s living in fear every day, scared a vehicle will come crashing into her home near Interstate 240.
She’s had plenty of close calls, and is pleading for something to be done before her worst fear becomes reality.
Video shows a pickup truck plowing into a backyard in South Memphis, moments after it sailed off I-240 Monday morning.
That truck landed in Robbie Woods’ backyard.
“He was right there at my steps. The vehicle was, I walked around to the other side to help him out, got him there to the steps. He was in bad shape,” Woods said.
Woods has only lived in her home about three and a half years.
“In that time it’s been about 15 accidents,” she said.
But she’s not moving. “I’m 65 years old. I’m not moving no more, this is it.”
She says she needs help. Her house off Cummings Street backs up to I-240. While the chain link fence separating her yard from the interstate is now broken, Woods says when it was intact, it did little to protect from flying cars.
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She showed us some of the wrecks, like when a Honda hit her home.
And there were other cases, some involving fatalities.
“It was a man and a lady, the lady, she died,” Woods said. “Then I had a teenager, his car, it flipped, gray little sports car, it flipped and ended up in my backyard. … We had a guy to die that hit right here at this corner, he died.”
The tragedies and close calls leaving her now living in fear.
“My grandkids can’t even come back here and play,” she said.
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She’s calling on city and state officials for help, to build some kind of stronger barrier between her home and the interstate before something else happens.
“Give us some protection back here to save our homes,” she pleaded.
We reached out to the Tennessee Department of Transportation about the issue and possible remedies for Woods. We are waiting to hear back.
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