Maury County deputy involved in serious crash in Columbia

MAURY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Maury County Sheriff’s deputy was involved in a serious single-vehicle crash in Columbia Friday morning.

It happened on Iron Bridge Road near Running Deer Drive around 7:30 a.m. Officials said it appears Jimmy Tennyson was traveling westbound on the road when he lost control and went down a 35-foot embankment.

Tennyson was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville with life-threatening injuries.

“We treat all crashes serious. This does kind of hit home because this is someone who is in our profession and doing the job that we do so to see a vehicle that has blue lights on it that’s crashed up, and someone whose injured and has life threatening injuries, you do take it personal,” Sgt. Chris Dye said..

Deputy Tennyson is a school resource officer in Maury County.

 

Courtesy of WKRN’s News 2