A Beechgrove man accidentally struck a skateboarder in Coffee County. DeMarcus Mayes of Tullahoma was riding his skateboard on Monday night when he was struck by a car on Atlantic St. Mayes, 22 was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville with serious injuries.

According to a police report by Tullahoma Police Sgt. Robert Weaver, around 7:15 p.m. Mayes was struck by a 1996 Ford Mustang operated by Ronald Allen Jacobs, 21, of Beechgrove.

Jacobs said that he did not see the skateboarder in the roadway until he struck him. After striking Mayes, the Mustang then struck a guardrail.

Witnesses told the officer that Mayes was in the middle of the roadway and that Jacobs swerved into the northbound lane and back into the southbound lane and struck Mayes sending him into through the air.

The witnesses said that it did not appear that the driver of the car was speeding at the time of the crash.

At last report officials at Vanderbilt listed Mayes as being in critical condition.

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