December 16, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
A 20 year old Smithville man was airlifted after a one car rollover crash today (Monday) on Highway 288 near Jefferson Road in the Keltonburg Community.
Trooper Bobby Johnson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Payton France was traveling east in a 1999 Chevy Lumina when he failed to negotiate a curve and went off the left side of the road. The car crashed through a fence and clipped a utility pole before overturning in a field and coming to rest on its top. A passerby spotted the wreck and pulled France from the car.
He was treated at the scene by DeKalb EMS and taken nearby to a helicopter landing zone at the Keltonburg Fire Station. France was then airlifted to a medical facility in Knoxville.