May 2, 2021
By: Dwayne Page
Three people, including a Smithville man, have died after being involved in a Rutherford County crash last Thursday.
22 year old Zachary Tyler Parsley passed away Friday at Vanderbilt Hospital.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Parsley was a passenger of a 2012 Ford Escape driven by 19 year old Sebastien Tarin of Manchester who was traveling east on Interstate 24.
The THP reports that Tarin’s vehicle drove off the interstate and into the median before traveling through the grassy divide and into the Westbound lane of traffic around 11 a.m. near the 95 mile marker west of the Shelbyville/Beech Grove exit. Once in the oncoming lane, the small SUV driven by Tarin collided head-on with a 2015 Nissan Frontier pickup truck driven by 65 year old Stanley Peterson of Beechgrove. All three persons were wearing their seatbelts but trapped and extricated by Rutherford fire
Both Tarin and Peterson were killed in the crash.
The accident remains under investigation.
Zachary Tyler Parsley, age 22, of Smithville passed away on Friday, April 30, 2021 at Vanderbilt Hospital.
Zachary was born on March 18, 1999 in Murfreesboro, TN to his parents, Jeremy and Sonya Linder Parsley. Preceding him in death is his grandfather, Maxie Parsley and one uncle, Joey Parsley. He was a senior at Tennessee Tech University and a member of Temple Baptist Church.
Funeral services and visitation will be announced later.
Survivors include his parents, Jeremy and Sonya Parsley of Smithville; 1 sister, Maddison Parsley of Smithville and 1 brother, Nicholas Parsley of Smithville; maternal grandparents, Bobby and Peggy Linder of Smithville; paternal grandmother, Ruby Parsley of Smithville; several aunts, uncles, and cousins. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.