(SMYRNA) An out-of-state person is dead after a crash on I-24 in Smyrna. It happened Tuesday around 6pm eastbound (toward Murfreesboro) at mile marker 69, just after the Sam Ridley Parkway exit. The crash included an overturned tractor-trailer rig and several other vehicles.

It happened Tuesday around 6pm eastbound (toward Murfreesboro) at mile marker 69, just after the Sam Ridley Parkway exit.

Eastbound traffic was snarled for hours as the crash was investigated by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

The T-H-P isn't releasing the name of the person killed in the crash until next of kin can be notified. However, officials do say that the deceased is from out of state.