Updated 12/27/19

A wrong-way driver was extricated from the wreckage of a four-vehicle collision near Summertown in an accident that sent three to a Nashville hospital and two to Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia.

The collision occurred on Route 43 near the two-lane road’s intersection with Highway 20 just north of Summertown near the Maury-Lawrence County border.

According to Tennessee Highway Patrol, the driver, an elderly man who remains unidentified, was trapped inside his red pickup truck after colliding head-on with a Kia sedan.

A trooper said the unidentified man was traveling in the opposite lane of the highway driving north in the southbound lanes of the national road.

After the initial collision, third vehicle, a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, was stuck by the rear of the southbound car as fishtailed from the head-on impact.

A fourth vehicle was unable to avoid the accident and struck at least one of the involved vehicles.

The two drivers involved in the collision were transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville along with a passenger riding in the sedan.

The two from the other vehicles in the accident were taken to Maury Regional Medical Center for examination.

The initial investigation indicates that there was no alcohol involved and no charges filed.