A Dowelltown woman escaped injury in a Sunday morning crash on Dale Ridge Road.
Trooper T.J. Withers of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 46 year old Laura Hughes was traveling north on Highway 96 in a 2008 Nissan Rogue when she ran off an embankment and crashed into a tree.
Hughes was not seriously injured and did not have to be transported to the hospital.
DeKalb EMS, Constable Mark Milam, the Liberty Station of the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department, and an officer of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department were also on the scene.
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