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1 flown to hospital after tractor-trailer goes down embankment in Montgomery County
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Montgomery County motorists may need to seek an alternate route Saturday evening while crews clear the scene of a tractor-trailer crash that left at least one person injured.
According to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office's Facebook post from 6:31 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, Dixie Bee Road will be shut down for 'approximately the next couple of hours' due to cleanup efforts.
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Authorities said a semi went off Interstate 24 and down the embankment onto Dixie Bee Road around 4:30 p.m. No other vehicles were involved in the incident.
The sheriff's office said one person was being flown to an area hospital while another was being removed from the vehicle, but no major injuries were reported on her.
After Montgomery County Fire Service requested assistance at mile marker 15 on I-24 West for an overturned tractor-trailer 'requiring heavy extrication,' Clarksville Fire Rescue announced at 7:22 p.m. that crews had successfully removed the second passenger from the cab of the vehicle. Fire officials added that 'the patient' was in stable condition and en route to Vanderbilt University Medical Center via LifeFlight, but they didn't specify whether that was the first passenger or the second passenger.
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No additional details have been released about the crash, which is under investigation by Tennessee Highway Patrol.
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