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田纳西州官员和校方证实，周三上午，密利根大学自行车队的两名队员在田纳西州东部一条乡村公路上与一辆汽车相撞身亡，另有多人受伤。一名司机已被逮捕。
在周三晚间的新闻发布会上，密利根大学校长斯蒂芬·瓦斯博士表示，当地时间上午8点左右事故发生时，共有11名自行车选手正在进行训练骑行。瓦斯称，两名自行车选手身亡，另有7人被送往医院。
瓦斯确认两名遇难者为大二学生海兰·恩格达尔和布雷登·罗杰斯。
“这是一支精英自行车队，不是一群俱乐部爱好者聚在一起骑行，他们都很专业，”田纳西州第一司法区检察官史蒂文·芬尼对记者表示。
2026年8月19日，在田纳西州汉普顿市与队友一同进行训练骑行时遭遇车祸身亡的密利根大学自行车队两名队员海兰·恩格达尔（左）与布雷登·罗杰斯的未注明日期照片。 密利根大学 供图
官员表示，部分受伤的自行车选手被直升机空运至地区医院约翰逊城医疗中心。该院创伤医疗主任布雷肯·伯恩斯博士在新闻发布会上称，医院接收的7名患者中，4人伤势危重，2人病情稳定，第7名患者经评估后已出院。
位于田纳西州伊丽莎白顿的小型基督教院校密利根大学表示，事故发生在校园以东约10英里的汉普顿社区。
田纳西州公路巡警称事故发生在一条乡村公路上。官员们在新闻发布会上未透露事故具体经过。一名公路巡警消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，事故发生在山区。
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“我们的警员目前正在全力调查事故的确切原因，”田纳西州公路巡警罗伊·布朗少校在新闻发布会上表示。
芬尼称，涉案司机为来自北卡罗来纳州纽兰的69岁约翰·本菲尔德，他已因两项鲁莽驾驶致人死亡罪和五项鲁莽驾驶严重袭击罪被拘留。
“我们将继续推进调查，不排除追加指控的可能，”芬尼说道。
2 members of Tennessee college cycling team killed in highway collision, officials say
August 19, 2026 / 6:21 PM EDT / CBS News
Two members of the Milligan University cycling team were killed, and several more were injured, in a collision with a vehicle on a rural highway in eastern Tennessee on Wednesday morning, state officials and the school confirmed. A driver has been arrested.
In a news conference Wednesday night, Milligan University President Dr. Stephen Waers said 11 cyclists were on a training ride when the crash occurred at about 8 a.m. local time. Waers said two cyclists were killed and seven others were hospitalized.
Waers identified the two deceased victims as sophomores Haylan Engdahl and Brayden Rogers.
“This is an elite cycling team, it’s not a bunch of club guys getting together to ride, they know what they’re doing,” Tennessee First Judicial District Attorney General Steven Finney told reporters.
Undated photos of Haylan Engdahl, left, and Brayden Rogers, two members of the Milligan University cycling team, who were killed in a collision with a car while on a training ride with their teammeates in Hampton, Tennessee, on Aug. 19, 2026. Milligan University
Officials said some of the injured cyclists were airlifted by helicopter to Johnson City Medical Center, an area hospital. Dr. Bracken Burns, the trauma medical director for the hospital, said during the news conference that of the seven patients the hospital received, four were in critical condition, two were in stable condition and the seventh was evaluated and released.
Milligan University, a small Christian college located in Elizabethton, Tennessee, said the crash occurred in the community of Hampton, about 10 miles east of the campus.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol said it took place on a rural highway. Officials did not provide any details on the circumstances of the crash during the news conference. A highway patrol source told CBS News that it occurred in a mountainous area.
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“Our troopers are now trying to determine exactly what happened,” Tennessee Highway Patrol Maj. Roy Brown said in the news conference.
Finney said the suspected driver, identified as 69-year-old John Benfield from Newland, North Carolina, was taken into custody on two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle by recklessness.
“We will keep trying and working, additional charges could come,” Finney said.
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