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TN: Car Crashes at Nuclear Weapons Plant (driver ran checkpoint, crashed into barrier, fled on foot)
ap on Breitbart.com ^ | 7/30/07 | AP

Posted on 07/30/2007 9:54:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - A driver ran a checkpoint at a nuclear weapons plant early Monday and crashed into a barrier, then fled on foot, authorities said.

Guards at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, a primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium, said the man “appeared to be impaired in some way” when they stopped him around 5 a.m. at a security checkpoint near a rear entrance, spokesman Bill Wilburn said.

They asked him for identification, but the man hit the gas and drove through the checkpoint, then crashed into security barriers a short distance away, Wilburn said.

“When he hit that, he jumped out of the car and ran away. He left the car there with the engine still running,” Wilburn said. He said the guards told him the car had been hot-wired.

Wilburn said no weapons were in the car. “They checked the car very thoroughly before they moved it. They found nothing,” he said.

Oak Ridge police were searching for the driver.

Steve Wyatt, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Oak Ridge, which oversees the Y-12 plant, downplayed the crash, saying it was “next to nothing.” The plant makes and dismantles uranium parts in nuclear warheads.


2,375 posted on 07/30/2007 3:16:22 PM PDT by Cindy
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“Gunman dead after firing shots in hospital”
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 30, 2007 | A.P.

Posted on 07/30/2007 2:49:57 PM PDT by Graybeard58

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “RIDGECREST, Calif. — A 75-year-old man walked into a medical building Monday and started shooting but was killed by a highway patrolman, authorities in this Mojave Desert community said. No other injuries were reported.”


2,376 posted on 07/30/2007 3:23:45 PM PDT by Cindy
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