Just after 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2009, an 18-wheeler was headed west on Highway 30, down the mountain toward Spencer, when it left the roadway and flipped over onto its side. The accident was actually inside an area of Fall Creek Falls State Park which was added to the park acreage in 1994. The tanker truck, owned by Slurry Paver, INC of Richmond, Virginia, was carrying an emulsifying agent used on chipped roads from a work site in Mooneyham to another site when the accident occurred. It is believed the liquid being carried, which is high in water content, may have started to slosh inside the tank side to side and caused the truck to tip over.
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Last Thursday night, at approximately 10:30 Joseph J. Webb, of Rock Island, TN was headed home, traveling north on Bone Cave Road from Highway 30 west, in his 2000 Saturn, when a dog or small deer crossed his bath. Webb swerved to miss the animal, struck several fence posts running up on a bank and flipped the vehicle on its top in the roadway.
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Brianna Smotherman, 19, of Cookeville was traveling south bound on Highway 111, near the Baker Mountain Road entrance, on Tuesday morning, just before noon, when she noticed smoke coming from underneath her 1988 Chevrolet Blazer. Pulling over to the side of the roadway, Smotherman and four passengers were able to evacuate the vehicle with no injuries, although the Blazer was a total loss.
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On Tuesday morning, June 30, 2009, Jordan Grissom, of Van Buren County was traveling the Lemont/Yates Mountain Road in a 1988 Toyota, when he met Brad Julian, of Van Buren County driving a 2000 Chevrolet truck. The vehicles collided head on, with Grissom’s truck flipping onto its top. [more]