CHRISTIAN COUNTY, Ky. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The driver in a tanker truck rollover crash on Pembroke Oak Grove Rd. Monday has died from his injuries at Vanderbilt Medical Center.
The driver has been identified as 63-year-old Jack W. Frost of Clarksville.
According to preliminary reports, the vehicle was traveling southbound on Pembroke Oak Grove Rd. Monday around 1:45 p.m. and ran off of the roadway. The vehicle, a semi and tanker combination owned by EcoEnergy carrying approximately 8,100 gallons of ethanol, then began to lose control and flip, landing on its top.
The victim was outside the vehicle when deputies arrived and he was later LifeFlighted to Vanderbilt with multiple injuries.
Emergency crews worked into the night to clean up the scene and make the roadway passable.