Wreck on Sunset Drive

At approximately 1:30 p.m., Oct. 22, 2025, members of the South Group Automatic Aid group were dispatched to Sunset Drive, in Oakdale Subdivision, for a motor vehicle collision with entrapment. Volunteers arrived to find an older van with a lone occupant entrapped in the driver's seat. Volunteers from Central View Volunteer Fire Department-Mt. Gilead/Quebeck/Walling, Hickory Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Doyle Volunteer Fire Department, and Sparta-White County Rescue Squad worked to free the driver and turned over care to paramedics of White County Emergency Medical Service. Tennessee Highway Patrol was on the scene at the request of White County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the cause of the crash.