Just after 5pm Monday afternoon 73 year-old Howard B. Lambert, Jr of Manchester, TN was driving his 2004 Buick north bound on the Old Woodbury Highway in Coffee County. According to a report from the Tennessee Highway Patrolman Donnie Clark, for an unknown reason, Lambert apparently veered off the right side of the road way and struck a utility pole at which time the vehicle came to rest.

Lambert died as a result of the injuries he received in the accident. Along with the Tennessee Highway Patrol the Coffee County Sheriff's Department and Coffee County EMS responded to the accident scene.

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