December 27, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A Sparta man was injured in a traffic accident on Highway 70 east at Sligo hill (Smithville side) Thursday afternoon.
Trooper Robert Melching of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Cliff Cudney was traveling west in a Dodge Durango when he lost control while trying to negotiate a curve and slid around in the road. The Durango went off in a ditch and struck an embankment. It came to rest facing east.
Cudney was taken by family members to a medical facility in Cookeville.
DeKalb EMS and members of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department were also on the scene.