Forty-three-year-old Debbie J. Collins, of Clay Co. Highway in the Hermitage Springs Community, was killed in a one vehicle accident that occurred on Saturday July 2.

According to a report by Trooper Gary Garrison, Collins was traveling north on Highway 151 in Jackson County in a 1996 Ford Contour at approximately 4:20 p.m. when the vehicle negotiated a curve, traveled off the left side of the roadway, traveled approximately 200 feet, striking a small embankment. The vehicle then reportedly went airborne into a tree and then hit a dry creek bed where the vehicle came to a final rest on its passenger side. Collins was wearing her seat belt.

Funeral services for Collins were conducted Tuesday, July 5, at 2 p.m. from the Chapel of the Phillip Anderson and Son Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs.

A native of Sumner County, TN, she was the daughter of Joe and Sybile Raines Hooten of the Goosehorn Community. She was married to Phillip Collins, who survives, in May of 1994. She was a logger and a member of the North Springs Church of Christ.

According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol Cookeville District, this is the only fatality that was recorded over the 4th of July weekend.