Knoxville, TN : 40-year-old Deborah injured in maintenance truck crash on Interstate 40 on Tuesday January 12 2016.

Charges are pending against a Knoxville man who struck a maintenance truck on Interstate 40 on Tuesday night, police said.
Timothy Smith, 18, was driving west, just east of Pellissippi Parkway, shortly after 9 p.m. when his 2000 Volkswagen GTI rear-ended an arrow board safety vehicle following a street sweeper along the median wall, according to a Knoxville Police Department news release.Smith, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown through the windshield.
The driver of the safety truck, 40-year-old Deborah Wilson, of Knoxville, also was injured in the collision.
The impact caused the body of the Volkswagen to be torn away from its engine and propelled (the car) across five lanes of the interstate where it came to rest between the outside lane and the shoulder of I-40 West," the release states.
Smith was transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available Wednesday afternoon.
Wilson, who was wearing a seat belt, was treated for minor injuries and released from Parkwest Medical Center.
The arrow board truck — which is owned by Sweeping Corp. of America, a Tennessee Department of Transportation subcontractor — was equipped with lights signaling traffic to move over, police said.

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Charges pending in I-40 crash involving maintenance truck