A Smithville woman and her two year old daughter were injured Thursday morning when their truck overturned on Highway 288 in the Keltonburg area. The accident occurred about three tenths of a mile east of Green Hill Road and about a mile from the Keltonburg store
Central dispatch received the call at 7:52 a.m.
Trooper Dewaine Jennings of the Tennessee Highway Patrol says 24 year old Jennifer Gayle Summers of 1254 Wright Bend Road, Smithville and her daughter, Adison Summers, were taken by DeKalb EMS to DeKalb Community Hospital where they were treated, but their injuries were not life threatening.
According to Trooper Jennings, Summers was driving a 2003 Dodge Ram west on Highway 288 when she left the roadway to the right, overcorrected, crossed the center line, then came back across going off the right side of the road again. The truck exited the road sideways and began to overturn. It rolled down an embankment, through a small creek, and rolled back up the other side of the embankment.
Summers was wearing her seatbelt and the two year old was properly restrained in a child safety seat, which may have prevented them from sustaining more serious injuries.
Summers was cited for failing to maintain the proper lane of travel.
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