Bond airlifted following Thursday morning accident
A early morning wreck Thursday left a local woman with serious injuries when her car strayed across the center line on Highway 70, colliding with two oncoming vehicles.
The victim, Francis K. Bond, 61, was airlifted to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga where she is under treatment for arm and other injuries.
According to Highway Patrolman Bruce Pryor, the accident happened around 7:15 a.m. on Nashville Highway when Bond’s westbound Chevy Cavalier strayed across the center line and into the path of the eastbound Toyota car driven by Beverly Ann Wheeler. The two cars collided in a sideswiping impact with Bond’s vehicle continuing in the wrong lane of travel and colliding nearly head on with a Toyota pickup driven by Seth Hollis Fleming. Neither Wheeler nor Fleming were injured.
Pryor said the cause of the crash remains under investigation.