CLARKSVILLE. Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – A driver died from his injuries in a crash Thursday morning on the 101st Airborne Division Parkway in Clarksville.
Police said a 2007 Kia Optima, driven by 37-year-old man Shaun Holder of Clarksville, was traveling east on the 101st around 4:30 a.m. at a high rate of speed when the car went off the road for an unknown reason. The vehicle hit a rock embankment and flipped several times.
Holder was ejected from the car when it came to rest near the West Fork Bridge. He was taken by LifeFlight to Vanderbilt where he died from his injuries.
No one else was in the vehicle.
Police said this is the 12th fatal crash in Clarksville in 2017.
The investigation is ongoing.
Courtesy: Officer Szczerbiak, CPD