I-75 rollover wreck injures lone occupant, snarls southbound traffic

Scene was cleared in less than two hours early Thursday

RIDGEWOOD, TN (WLAF)- The call of a rollover wreck with possible entrapment came in to Central Dispatch at 5:51am Thursday.

First responders soon realized the lone occupant, the driver, was able to get out of the truck, a red Ford Ranger pick-up truck. However, the truck did rollover, at least once landing on its wheels off I-75 on the southbound side just before the Ridgewood train trestle, according one official. That was at Mile Marker 131.3.

The driver was injured, and he was transported to a hospital by Anderson County EMS, according to an official at Central Dispatch.

“We were paged out, Ridgewood Volunteer Fire Department, and Caryille Police and a Campbell Deputy responded with us,” said RVFD Chief Dylan Roach.

Southbound traffic was down to the left lane only for the better part of two hours creating a long back-up. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-02/19/2026-9AM-PHOTOS COURTESY OF RVFD CHIEF DYLAN ROACH)