Local woman pleads guilty in Clarksville wreck

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.