CROSSVILLE —
A Cumberland County man died in a two-vehicle wreck on Interstate 40 Sunday night, becoming the county's sixth highway traffic death of 2011, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
The crash occurred around 11 p.m. near the 336 mile marker, just west of the Westel exit.
Dead at the scene was Patrick M. Waldo, 36, Smith Mountain Rd. He was the driver of a 2001 Suzuki. Driver of a 2011 GMC Yukon, Christopher Harwell, 42, of Nashville, and his passenger, Damian Giles, 43, of New York City, escaped injury in the crash.
Both vehicles were traveling east on I-40 when the Suzuki left the left side of the road and struck the cable barrier. The impact caused the compact car to rotate 90 degrees at which time it was struck in the driver's-side door by the Yukon, according to Trooper Jason Winningham's report.
The impact sent the Suzuki off the right side of the road and a short distance down an embankment. The GMC Yukon flipped over and landed in the middle of the interstate highway.
Cumberland County Emergency Medical Service and Cumberland County Fire Department responded to the scene. It took firefighters just under an hour to extricate the victim from the wreckage.
Waldo was not wearing a seat belt. The two occupants of the Yukon were wearing seat belts.
Trooper Sgt. Jeff Cook was also on the scene to investigate the crash.
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