Two people were injured last Wednesday evening, September 1, after being involved in serious crash two-vehicle crash. The victims of the crash had to be airlifted from the scene to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville for their injuries.

According to Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Bobby Johnson, 38-year-old Aaron White of Smithville was traveling eastbound on Whorton Springs Road in a 2003 Ford Ranger. At the same time, 24-year-old Nathan Mathis, and a passenger 41-year-old Joneta Foster, both of McMinnville, were traveling north on Jacobs Pillar Road in a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu.

Authorities say that as White approached the intersection of Jacobs Pillar Road, he failed to stop at the stop sign, striking Mathis’s vehicle and knocking it off the right side of the roadway. White’s vehicle then struck a utility pole.

White was uninjured in the crash, but Mathis and Foster both suffered serious injuries. A dog in the Mathis vehicle was also uninjured in the crash.

White was issued citations for driving without a license, failure to obey a traffic control signal, and placed under arrest for active warrants out of Smith County. Charges are pending an investigation on Mathis.