June 7, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A woman and child were injured Sunday night after their car plunged off an embankment on Highway 70 near the Alexandria Livestock Sale Barn.
Trooper Brent Collier of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 66-year-old Joan M. Carnahan of Hermitage, and a 12-year-old girl from Clarksville, were traveling west on Highway 70 in a 2013 Nissan Altima 4 door sedan when Carnahan fell asleep. The car ran off the side of the roadway, went down an embankment and came to rest against some rocks near a creek.
Deputies with the DeKalb Sheriff’s Department, DeKalb EMS, and the DeKalb County Fire Department’s Liberty Station responded to the scene, along with the DeKalb Rescue Squad.
Carnahan and the young passenger were taken by ground ambulance to Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital.