Accident scene photos by Barry West.
Just after 5pm Monday afternoon 73 year-old Howard B Lambert, Jr of Manchester, TN was driving his 2004 Buick north bound on the Old Woodbury Highway in Coffee County just behind the new middle school. According to a report from Tennessee Highway Patrolman Donnie Clark, for an unknown reason, Lambert apparently veered off the right side of the road way and struck a utility pole at which time the vehicle came to rest.
Lambert died as a result of the injuries he received in the accident.
Along with the Tennessee Highway Patrol the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department and Coffee County EMS responded to the accident scene.
