August 6, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
A 70-year-old Cookeville man lost his life in a pickup truck crash Thursday afternoon on Highway 56 near Center Hill Lake.
Trooper Bobby Johnson of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Phillip Smith was traveling north in a 2016 Nissan Frontier when he ran off the left side of the road and struck a rock bluff head on. Smith died at the scene.
Members of the DeKalb County Fire Department, Sheriff’s Department, and DeKalb EMS all responded along with other members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.