Local woman pleads guilty in Clarksville wreck

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

A Shelbyville woman charged with driving the wrong way on Interstate 24 near Clarksville and causing a wreck that critically injured four people has pleaded guilty and will serve a month in jail.

On Friday, Brenda K. Gordon, 42, of Shelbyville, pleaded guilty to an accident involving personal injury and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 11 months and 29 days on probation, according to the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle. She also was fined $500.

Gordon will report to the Montgomery County Jail on July 6 at 6 p.m. She was originally charged with reckless driving and causing an accident involving personal injury.

Gordon caused the Oct. 4, 2008, wreck that injured Marnie and Michael Lewis and their 10-year-old daughter Phelan, the Leaf-Chronicle reported.

According to previous reports, a Mitsubishi Eclipse going the wrong way on I-24 slammed into the Lewis' Ford Mustang. The Mustang then hit a tractor-trailer, a guard rail and a Honda Accord.

A passenger in the Accord, Jacqueline Agap, 29, also was injured.

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My prayers to all involved.

-- Posted by Momof3&3step&1gran on Wed, Jun 10, 2009, at 9:47 AM

Um What a sec... I know drunk drivers that get far less sentences. I have to give it to this woman to accept her responsibility but damn that is a harsh sentence for an accident.

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Thu, Jun 11, 2009, at 12:15 AM

The story said she "Critically injured four people", so she may have gotten more charges, plus it caused a tractor trailor and Honda accord to be involved in the wreck too.

-- Posted by Momof3&3step&1gran on Thu, Jun 11, 2009, at 7:18 PM

Momof3,

It was an accident, it wasn't on purpose.

-- Posted by Evil Monkey on Fri, Jun 12, 2009, at 1:20 PM

True EM, most accidents are accidental, not done on purpose. I was not the one that made the charges. I only stated reasons "why they may have" given her more on her sentence.

-- Posted by Momof3&3step&1gran on Sat, Jun 13, 2009, at 6:57 PM