HAMBLEN TWP. — On the afternoon of March 4, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Derek Frensemeier responded to a crash on Beech Tree Road. According to the crash report, he found the crashed vehicle on its side when he arrived.
A tree branch was keeping driver’s side door was open. When Frensemeier looked through the windshield, he saw the driver, 76-year-old Patricia Reed of Nineveh, trapped in the vehicle on the passenger side.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Jimmy Green entered the back side of the vehicle and supported Reed’s neck. Frensemeier advised dispatch to start the on-call wrecker.
Hamblen Fire arrived on scene and broke through the windshield. Frensemeier then traded with Green and helped support Reed’s neck while firefighters cut the roof off the vehicle to recover Reed for medical aid.
While inside the vehicle, Frensemeier asked Reed how the crash had occurred. According to the report, she said she had left AppleWorks, heading west on Beech Tree Road, and did not remember what happened.
EMS arrived shortly after and gathered Reed’s information, and told a family member about the crash and that Reed would be transported to John Memorial Hospital.
The vehicle was recovered after EMS cleared the scene.
County man violates no contact order from jail
A Nineveh man, 37-year-old David Metsch, faces a Class A misdemeanor for repeatedly violating a no contact order (NCO) from late last year to early this year.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed by William Hamilton, an investigator with the Brown County Prosecutor’s Office, the NCO was issued in open court on Dec. 12 and prohibited Metsch from having contact with an individual outside of what was allowed by their case.
From Dec. 16 to Jan. 7, Metsch had made 37 outgoing calls from the Brown County Sheriff’s Department Jail, with 20 of the calls going to the individual. The individual accepted all the calls.
Hamilton reported that the NCO was violated by Metsch as many as 20 times.
