The driver of a dump truck has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by intoxication after a Sunday night crash killed two people in Bellevue.
According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, 23-year-old Nicholas Sterling, of Ashland City, drove a Freightliner dump truck through a flashing red stop light heading southbound on Old Hickory Boulevard. The truck hit the driver’s side of a Ford Focus as it traveled on Charlotte Pike around 11 p.m.
The driver of the Focus, 38-year-old Kendall Cartwright, of Nashville, died at the scene. Cartwright's passenger, 46-year-old Eduardo Benitez-Alamillo, died of his injuries on Monday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
"Sterling was also transported to Vanderbilt with minor injuries," a news release reads. "There was an odor of alcohol on his breath and an open beer bottle was seen by responding officers on the floorboard of the dump truck."
Sterling was released from the hospital and booked in jail on $40,000 bond.
This story was updated following the announcement of Benitez-Alamillo's death.