An 18 year old McMinnville man was airlifted after he crashed his pickup truck on Belk Road (State Highway 288) near Walker Road Sunday morning.
Danny Smedley was taken by DeKalb EMS from the scene of the accident to a helicopter landing zone set up near New Union The Baptist Church. Smedley was flown from there to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.
Trooper Chris Delong of the Tennessee Highway Patrol told WJLE that Smedley was traveling toward Warren County in a 2006 Nissan Titan when he left the road, struck an embankment, broke a utility pole, and then went back across the highway, coming to rest in the opposite direction.
Later in the day, a Murfreesboro woman was injured in a motorcycle accident on Highway 70 near the VFW Club location.
Trooper Delong said 40 year old Katherine Lawless was on a 1998 Honda motorcycle traveling east when she hit gravel and lost control in a curve. She was transported by DeKalb EMS to DeKalb Community Hospital
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