DeKalb County rescuers rushed to the scene on a trike crash last Sunday where a man was seriously injured. The 18-year-old victim was airlifted from the scene.

According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, at 8:28 pm, Jarrod W. Smith, Jr. was traveling south on Old Givens Hollow Road on a 1985 Yamaha Trike when it went off the right side of the road while navigating a curve before reentering the roadway and then going off the left side. After leaving the roadway, the trike went off a small bridge. Smith was thrown from the trike and landed face down in the creek bed.

Members of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, DeKalb EMS, and DeKalb Fire Department responded to the scene of the crash. Authorities set up a landing zone at DeKalb West School, where Smith was flown to the hospital.