One person was injured and charges are pending after a two-vehicle crash involving a semi truck on Oak Ridge Turnpike on Monday.
The crash was reported at about 1:40 p.m. between Adams Lane and Van Hicks Road, just west of Illinois Avenue, according to law enforcement officers.
A preliminary crash report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Amber O. Carow, 27, was driving west on the Turnpike in a 2004 Toyota Camry when the vehicle crossed over two lanes and hit the trailer of a 2020 Volvo semi truck driving east.
When the Camry stopped, it was facing east, opposite its direction of travel, the report said. The collision knocked the truck trailer off its back tandem.
Carow was injured, the THP report said. Carow was wearing a seat belt, but charges are pending, according to the report.
The semi truck was driven by Richard L. Davis, 61. Davis was wearing a seat belt and was not injured, the report said.
The Oak Ridge Police Department said police officers and the Oak Ridge Fire Department responded to the crash. One person was flown to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville by a UT Lifestar medical helicopter, the ORPD said.
The THP investigated the crash, which was on a state highway.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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