One man lost his life and three others were injured Tuesday night after their SUV went off Highway 70 at Dowelltown overturned and came to rest upside down in a creek.
Dead is 41 year old Troy Bain.
30 year old Dwayne Reeder, 39 year old Walter Redmon, and 27 year old Courtney Paris all of Smithville were injured and transported by DeKalb EMS to DeKalb Community Hospital
Central Dispatch received the call at 8:37 p.m.
Lieutenant Randy Maynard of the Tennessee Highway Patrol reports that Reeder was traveling east on Highway 70 in a 1997 Ford Expedition when he apparently fell asleep. The vehicle went off the left side of the road, plunged over an embankment, overturned, and came to rest on it’s top in a creek. Bain and Redmon, back seat passengers, were ejected. They were not wearing their seatbelts. Reeder and Paris, in the front seat, were apparently wearing their seatbelts.
Among those responding were members of the DeKalb County Fire Department Extrication and Rescue Team, the Liberty Fire Station, DeKalb County Rescue Squad, DeKalb EMS, and the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department.
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