MARYVILLE, Tenn. — One man is dead after a car crash on Williams Mill Road at Oak Hill Drive in Maryville on Friday evening, authorities said.

Officials with the city of Alcoa stated that Jesse Malone, 31, died after a car crash involving another driver around 8 p.m.

They said that Ronald Weaver was driving a van, and he had been involved in a separate crash earlier in the evening. City officials stated that he was in a crash on Old Knoxville Highway at Pellissippi Parkway, where he sideswiped another vehicle and sped away "at a high rate of speed."

Then, officials said he turned onto Williams Mill Road, swerved in the road, and crashed into Malone's SUV.

He was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash, two counts of reckless endangerment, driving while under the influenc

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