An 18 year old Liberty man was seriously injured when his pickup truck crashed into a tree on Big Rock Road Thursday afternoon. Central Dispatch received the call at 4:41 p.m.
Carlos Dustin Nokes was airlifted from the scene by a Life Flight helicopter ambulance and flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Trooper Darrell Knowles of the Tennessee Highway Patrol says Nokes was driving a 1986 Chevy S-10 south on Big Rock Road when he went off the right side of the road, overcorrected, continued south, and then went off the left side of the road. The pickup struck a ditch, went airborne, and then crashed nose down and top first into a tree. The truck then fell back and came to rest on it’s wheels. Nokes was pinned inside the truck and had to be extricated by members of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department’s Rescue Team. Others on the scene were members of the Keltonburg and Short Mountain Highway Stations of the Fire Department, county deputies, and DeKalb EMS.
Meanwhile two people were transported by DeKalb EMS to DeKalb Community Hospital after a two vehicle wreck on Whorton Springs Road Thursday afternoon.
Trooper Knowles says 17 year old Kiesha M. Kunze of Smithville was east on Whorton Springs Road in a 2005 Toyota and 39 year old Benjamin D. Barlow of Smithville was traveling west in a 1996 Mazda pickup truck when they made contact in a curve.
Both Kunze and a passenger of her vehicle, 69 year old Marga Spruill of Smithville were transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Two others in the Kunze vehicle, Sandra Kunze and an eighteen month old child were not injured. Barlow was also uninjured.
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