The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is releasing details in a fatal vehicle versus pedestrian collision that occurred on the Pennyrile Parkway Monday afternoon.
According to a news release, it happened just before 3:45 p.m. near the 29-mile-marker, just north of the Christian County line. Investigation determined that 59-year-old Dewey Huff Jr. of Clarksville had been assisting a semi-truck with changing a flat tire in the emergency lane of the Parkway.
Huff had reportedly finished the tire change was in the right-lane of travel speaking with the driver of the semi, when he was struck by a northbound vehicle driven by 36-year-old Luke Warden of Columbus, Georgia.
Huff was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Hopkins County Coroner’s Office, and the collision remains under investigation.