Unresolved questions remain after a rare accident claimed the life of a Soddy Daisy woman

RINGGOLD, Ga. – The family of a Soddy Daisy woman who died in a rare car accident says there are still unanswered questions.

Contrary to police reports, Autumn McClure’s family says there are still gaps in the story about what happened to her.

The Ringgold Police Department posted the Aug. 14 accident report to our newsroom on Tuesday.

The report states that McClure was traveling south on Interstate 75 near Exit 348 with a man and a young boy in the car “when a large metal object struck the female passenger after passing through the windshield.” “

The car pulled into a nearby Wendy’s and the driver called 911. Arriving officers found McClure unconscious and suffering from severe bleeding from his neck and chest. He worked to save her life until emergency medical services could take her to hospital, where she later died.

A separate report from the day before McClure’s death describes part of a tractor-trailer jumping off and flying through another woman’s windshield.

This happened on the same stretch of road as McClure’s case, near the Ringgold exit on I-75.

That means it’s possible it was the same component that ultimately hit and killed McClure.

Autumn’s mother Kimberly Brock says…

“She is now an angel watching over us all. It was her time… and she didn’t suffer.”

Two police reports reveal new details about where the brake part that killed Autumn may have come from.

Here is the timeline we put together:

• The day before Autumn’s death, at 11:26 p.m., another driver saw a part come off a tractor-trailer near the Ringgold exit on I-75, shattering his windshield.
• The tractor-trailer driver told police that part of his brake cylinder had come loose.
• He goes to the ring gold weighing station.
• The next morning at 7:05 a.m., Autumn was driving in a car on I-75 South near the Ringgold exit when a large metal object shot through the windshield.

“The piece probably sat on the street for six or seven hours. And such a big piece, someone had to see it. Anyone could have called and said, ‘Hey, look, there’s a big piece of metal lying on the street.’ And maybe TDOT could have come and gotten it and my daughter would still be alive today,” Brock said.

Five days later, an officer found the object that had come through the windshield and called the first tractor-trailer driver.

The driver said he couldn’t be sure it came from his truck.

Autumn’s mother told us that a part was taken to the scrapyard before police could connect it to the part that hit Autumn.

Now the police have determined that it was an accidental death. But Kimberly says there’s a lesson here…

“If you see something on the road, call TDOT and they will come pick it up. They could save anyone’s life.”

Autumn’s mother Kimberly tells us they are thinking about taking legal action.