May 24, 2021
By: Dwayne Page
A Baxter man was critically injured in a motorcycle crash late Saturday night on State Route 83 (Allen Ferry Road)
911 received the call at 11:35 p.m.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 57 year old Scott T. Smith was east on Allen Ferry Road in the vicinity of the Herb Cottage riding a 2018 Harley Davidson motorcycle when the bike went off the right side of the roadway. Upon re-entering the highway, the motorcycle went out of control and began to slide. The bike slid across both lanes of the highway and came to rest in the westbound ditch line facing south.
Smith was wearing a helmet but seriously injured. He was transported from the scene to Ascension St. Thomas DeKalb Hospital by EMS and then airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center. The THP reports that as of Sunday afternoon, Smith was still hospitalized in critical but stable condition.