May 1, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
An 18-year-old man was airlifted after his trike motorcycle plunged off a small bridge and crashed on Old Givens Hollow Road Sunday night.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Jarrod W. Smith, Jr. was traveling south on Old Givens Hollow Road on a 1985 Yamaha Trike when it went off the right side of the road while navigating a curve before reentering the roadway and then going off the left side. After leaving the roadway, the trike went off a small bridge. Smith was thrown from the trike and landed face down in the creek bed. Smith was then airlifted from near the scene where a helicopter landing zone set up at DeKalb West School.
Members of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, DeKalb EMS, and DeKalb Fire Department were all on the scene of the crash.