Celina,TN : One crash leads to another on Celina Highway on August, Friday 4th 2017

It was bad enough when a pickup truck hit a semi head-on Friday morning, Aug. 4, on Celina Highway, but things got even worse about an hour later, when a car reportedly came barreling through the scene and caused a second crash.

The initial crash call came in at approximately 9:30 a.m. Friday, with the caller reporting a head-on collision between a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer on Celina Highway near the intersection with Fletcher Circle. Emergency responders reportedly removed Kelli Marie Paige Smith, 18, who had recently moved to Celina from Hopkinsville, KY, from her father's blue 1992 Chevrolet Silverado extended cab pickup truck, which was facing west in the eastbound lane of Celina Highway in the aftermath of the crash. Most of the front of the truck had been obliterated in the crash.

Smith reportedly was transported to Cookeville Regional Medical Center by Overton County Ambulance Service for treatment of injuries she suffered in the crash. The Chevrolet she was driving reportedly did not have a driver air bag, but she was said to be wearing her seat belt at the time of the crash. Authorities said she would likely be OK. OCN witnessed her making a call on her cell phone while she was being loaded into the ambulance on a stretcher, and she was alert and talking to emergency personnel.

Tennessee Highway Patrol investigating troopers on the scene as well as eyewitnesses said the Chevrolet was traveling east on Celina Highway toward Livingston when Smith lost control in a brief heavy downpour of rain, spinning out in the middle of the road.

Charles William Costello, 61, of Edmonton, KY, said he was driving his 2000 Freightliner Classic tractor pulling a 53-foot trailer westbound toward Celina when he saw the Chevrolet spinning out right in front of him and attempted to swerve onto the westbound shoulder to miss it. The Chevrolet reportedly impacted the Freightliner's tandems on both the tractor and the trailer. Costello, who was shirtless and reportedly uninjured at the scene, told troopers that he had given Smith his shirt in an attempt to slow bleeding from her nose until paramedics arrived.

The crash closed both travel lanes of Celina Highway, and authorities from Overton County Sheriff's Department as well as East 52 and Timothy volunteer fire departments directed traffic into the westbound shoulder to get around the wreckage and debris.


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One crash leads to another on Celina Highway