Emergency crews and first responders were called out to two accidents Wednesday morning that occurred within five minutes of one another, and on opposite ends of the county.
The first call came in at 7:20 a.m. Wednesday, January 4 from the Sycamore Valley Road area. EMS personnel found a 2003 Ford Mustang overturned in the ditch on the northbound side of the roadway. The driver, a 16-year old female juvenile from the Pleasant Shade community was not seriously injured in the mishap, but was transported to Macon County General Hospital in Lafayette where she was treated and released.
The official Tennessee Highway Patrol accident report states that the young woman's vehicle was "traveling north on the Sycamore Valley Road when it went off the left side of the roadway. The driver over corrected and the vehicle went off the left shoulder where it struck an embankment and a tree, and overturned onto its top."
THP Trooper Neil Ferguson cited the driver with violation of the due care law. Macon County Sheriff's Deputy Larry West, and Det. Bill Cothron assisted in the accident investigation and traffic control.
A SECOND ONE VEHICLE ACCIDENT occurred on the New Harmony Road at 7:25 a.m. Wednesday, December 4 when a 1993 Ford Ranger pickup "struck the end of a concrete bridge abutment, flipped over one time and came to a rest on its top in the middle of the creek," according to the THP accident report filed by Sgt. Wm. "Butch" Avera.
Driver David Andrew Price, 21, Red Boiling Springs was briefly pinned in the vehicle, but West Macon Rescue Squad crews were called back when EMS and MCSD personnel advised that both subjects were out of the vehicle at approximately 7:35 a.m.
Both Price and a passenger, Zachary Kane Leverett, 28, RBS, Tn. were transported to Macon County General Hospital and treated and released that same morning. Price was cited for violation of the due care law, seat belt and insurance laws; while his passenger was cited for violation of the seat belt law.
The accident happened on the New Harmony Road about 1,500 feet south of the Ford Hollow Road, just a quarter mile from the location where a 2003 Ford pickup hydroplaned on a wet roadway New Years Eve and struck a utility pole traveling backwards.
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