January 10, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
Two dump trucks were involved in an accident Tuesday morning on Holmes Creek Road.
According to Trooper Rodney Whiles of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 28 year old Thomas Bradley of Pikeville, North Carolina was driving west in a 2011 Volvo dump truck pulling a flatbed trailer when the truck ran off the right side of the roadway and overturned onto the driver side dumping its load in the road. The truck was hauling asphalt and the trailer carried paving equipment. Meanwhile, 49 year old Tony Sherrill of Springfield was also traveling west in a 2007 Freightliner dump truck and came upon the crash after having just negotiated a right curve. Sherrill swerved to the right and into the ditchline before hitting the rear passenger side of Bradley’s trailer. After impact Sherrill continued to travel west in the ditchline before eventually coming to rest.
Bradley and two passengers with him, 53 year old Marvin Christian and 44 year old Fred Dews both of Springfield were injured and taken by DeKalb EMS to St. Thomas DeKalb Hospital.
Neither Sherrill or his passenger, 47 year old Kenneth Jones of Springfield were injured.