TMP Reports
Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:59 am

Three people were injured in a crash when a Jeep turned into the path of a Murfreesboro Police officer about 12:30 a.m. Thursday on Northwest Broad Street and West Clark Boulevard, a state trooper said.

Jeep driver Brian Carr suffered life-threatening injuries and was flown by LifeFlight helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, said Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Marvin.

Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services paramedics treated Officer Matthew Garrett and another passenger in the Jeep, who suffered minor injuries, before they were transported to Middle Tennessee Medical Center. They were treated and released.

Marvin said Garrett was driving his patrol car on Northwest Broad Street when the Jeep turned into his path and the patrol car T-boned the jeep.

Carr failed to yield to the Jeep, the trooper said. Garrett was unable to stop.

“When Brian’s Jeep Wrangler hit the curb, Brian wasn’t wearing a seat belt so he got ejected out the passenger window,” Marvin said. “He was trapped and had to be extricated.”

Carr was believed drinking alcohol before the crash, Marvin said.

He remains hospitalized at Vanderbilt.