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.
