DeKalb County: Woman Found Dead in Overturned Car

December 14, 2009

The body of a 49 year old woman was found inside her car in a rain swollen creek off Bright Hill Road Sunday morning in DeKalb County.

Dead is Lisa Gail Johnson of Smithville.

Trooper Dewaine Jennings of the Tennessee Highway Patrol says the car left the road, struck a concrete bridge retaining wall, and then overturned into the creek. The car came to rest upside down partially submerged in the water.

A passerby spotted the car in the creek and reported it to the sheriff’s department.

Trooper Jennings says he and another officer initially went into the creek but were unable to get inside the car. Tow trucks from J.R.. Motors and Tim’s Truck service came to the scene and lifted the vehicle from the water, and the woman’s body was found inside. - WJLE

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