Semi Overturns on Cookeville Highway

August 18, 2022
By: Dwayne Page

A 28-year-old truck driver sustained minor injuries Wednesday when he lost control of his semi on Highway 56 North (Cookeville Highway) in the Cherry Hill area.

According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Salat Omar Hussein of Columbus, Ohio was traveling south in a 2016 Freightliner Semi-tractor trailer rig negotiating a left curve when it traveled off the right side of the roadway and overturned on its right side while taking out a large section of guardrail.

The crash was investigated by Trooper Andrew Collier of the THP. Members of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, DeKalb Fire Department, and DeKalb EMS were also on the scene.

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