Truck Strikes Mobile Home, Knocking It Off Foundation
Published: 8:30 AM, 11/20/2008
Last updated: 10:11 AM, 11/20/2008
Source: The Greeneville Sun
Incident
Knocks
Pregnant Woman
Out Of Her
Bed;
Driver Is Charged
By BILL
JONES
Staff Writer
A Greene County
man was charged by a sheriff's deputy with multiple offenses after an accident Wednesday night in
which his pickup truck struck an Old Mountain Road mobile home and knocked it from its
foundation.
Abraham Joshua Jones, 29, of 5770 Greystone Road, was charged
with DUI and leaving the scene of the accident at the intersection of Old Mountain Road and Shelton
Mission Road.
Arrest warrants and a report filed by Deputy Sheriff
Michael Jones said Abraham Jones was the driver of a Chevrolet pickup truck that left the road and
struck a parked Jeep Liberty sport-utility vehicle before striking a mobile
home.
Emergency radio transmissions between Camp Creek Volunteer Fire
Department firefighter Marty Shelton and Greene County 911 indicated that the pickup truck had
crashed into a mobile home occupied by a pregnant woman who had been in bed at the time of the
collision.
The impact had knocked the mobile home from its foundation and
had thrown the woman, whose name was not listed in arrest warrants or a Sheriff's Department report,
from her bed.
The woman was not believed to have been injured in the
incident, although Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services personnel were summoned to
the scene to evaluate her, radio transmissions indicated.
The collision
with the mobile home also broke the electric power line leading to the mobile home, according to
radio transmissions from the scene.
After the collision, according to an
arrest warrant, Abraham Jones fled the scene, but was found later by deputies at a Colyer Road
residence.
Jones, according to arrest warrants, was taken to Laughlin
Memorial Hospital for treatment of what were believed to be minor
injuries.
He was summoned to appear in General Sessions Court on Friday
on the DUI and leaving the accident scene charges.
Responding to the
accident scene, in addition to sheriff's deputies and units of the Camp Creek VFD, were units of the
Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad, Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services and
the Greeneville Light & Power System.
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