Four Involved in One Car Wreck

Four people were involved in a one car wreck Saturday morning on the Cookeville Highway.
Central dispatch received the call at 9:48 a.m.
Trooper Dewaine Jennings of the Tennessee Highway Patrol told WJLE that 45 year old Clay Allan Binkley of Smithville was driving south on Highway 56 in a 2003 Chevy Cavalier when he failed to properly negotiate a curve to the right. The car crossed the center line. Binkley overcorrected and the vehicle spun around, left the roadway to the right, and entered a ditchline, making an angle impact with an earthen embankment and metal culvert.
Others in the car with Binkley were his wife, 43 year old Georgetta Lynn Binkley; a son, 15 year old Troy Allan Binkley; and another relative, 35 year old Rebecca Faye Ross.
Ross was taken by DeKalb EMS to DeKalb Community Hospital. Mrs. Binkley, who suffered minor scrapes and cuts, rode in the ambulance with Ross to the hospital, but Binkley was not seriously injured. No one else was hurt.
Mr. Binkley was issued a citation for failure to maintain his lane of travel and for not wearing a seatbelt.
In addition to Trooper Jennings and DeKalb EMS, deputies from the Sheriff’s Department and members of the Cookeville Highway station of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department were also on the scene.