November 7, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
A motorist was injured Monday when his vehicle plowed into a tractor trailer rig on Highway 70 east near Tenneco.
36-year-old Joshua Batey of Smithville was taken by EMS to Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital.
According to Trooper Bobby Johnson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Batey was traveling east on Highway 70 in a 2000 GMC Sierra when the vehicle ran into the rear of a 2004 Freightliner Tractor Trailer rig which was parked in the slow lane of Highway 70 east at the time of the crash while the driver of the rig, (name unavailable) had walked to Tenneco.