Wearing a seat belt may have saved a driver’s life who died Sunday after she was involved in a one-vehicle crash about Saturday night on Bradyville Pike, a state trooper said.
Driver Lynn Schultz, 28, of Baker Road died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, said Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Boyd.
Schultz was not wearing a seat belt about 8:30 p.m. when the Toyota Tacoma truck she drove left the road without a shoulder, struck two brick mailboxes and traveled into a ditch, the trooper said. When the truck traveled out of the ditch, it overturned several times, ejecting Schultz.
Her truck traveled 342 feet. She didn’t wear a seat belt.
“The driver’s side of the vehicle was not damaged to the point someone couldn’t survive,” Boyd said, explaining if she wore the seat belt, she would have stayed inside the truck.
Boyd listed speeding and failure to keep in the proper lane as contributing factors in the crash. A routine blood alcohol test was taken.
Schultz, who is the mother of two children, had child car seats in the vehicle, causing emergency responders to ensure her children were not hurt. Her children were with her parents.
She is the 15th traffic fatality this year in Rutherford County.
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