THP: Texas man suffered medical emergency prior to Friday crash
DYER COUNTY, Tenn. — A Texas man died after a crash Friday morning near the Interstate 155 bridge near Dyersburg.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, 44-year-old William Lee Harper III, of Brownsboro, Texas, died in the crash around 8 a.m. Friday on the exit ramp on Interstate 155 between Missouri and Tennessee.
THP says investigators believe Harper had a medical emergency that led to his tractor-trailer truck leaving the road, going off the shoulder and through a metal fence before stopping in a pond nearby.
