Blanchfield injured in Friday wreck at Liberty

February 13, 2021
By: Dwayne Page

A Liberty man was seriously injured a pickup truck crash at around 11 a.m. Friday.

According to Trooper Bobby Johnson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 68 year old Charlie Blanchfield was east on Highway 70 in a 2019 Dodge truck at Liberty when he went off the right side of the highway before hitting a mailbox, street sign, and a business sign. Debris from the wreck also damaged a vehicle setting in a parking lot at the crash scene.

Blanchfield was taken by EMS to Vanderbilt Hospital after being extricated from the truck by members of the DeKalb County Fire Department’s Rescue Team.

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