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Rescue workers tend to the scene on West Lamar Alexander Parkway Monday night after a two-vehicle crash left one person dead and another critically injured.

U.S. 321, Friendsville, Tennessee - A 25-year-old Maryville man is killed and another woman is critically injured Monday night in a two-vehicle accident on West Lamar Alexander Parkway.

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well i think its a very sad thing, and i dont think anyone should be on here, talking crap, or bashing mark, or his family, he was a great person, he had a big heart, and he was a great friend, its just so unfortunate, that this tragety had to happen, and take the life of such a young man, and hurt another. mark was a good friend of mine, and my husband, he was very out going, and full of life,he will definatly be missed by all of us, he might of had his problems, but so what!!!! we all do, but its from support that you help someone, not from bashing them. all i can say is: RIP MARK, WE LOVE YOU!!! YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE OUR THOUGHTS. love, audrey, and chris hill

-- Posted by audrey hill on Wed, Oct 1, 2008, 2:49 am EDT (Report this)

ok so the sad part is their is a young man whom lost his life regardless of what happend a young life was taken and another in critical condition and there is people who are as low to get on the internet and bash the young man whom is not here with us anymore? right wrong it dosent matter he was a son a grandson a brother a cousin a nephue a uncle a friend and a boyfriend and their are people who are mourning his death and they have to read whet you have wrote bashing him on the internet, not to mention before you go and bash some one who isnt here to defend theirself get your story strait. in my eyes i dont know how you can lay down tonight and go to sleep because its poeple like you who make me sick and its people like you piss me off. you can set and tell all his faults but you frogot to mention that he was the brave young man who risked his life and ran into a burning house to try and save his uncle (not his granpa hes still with us i seen him today) and he wrecked the truck (not into a house ) because he was so upset over the loss of the uncle that he tried to save, so before you have the balls to get onto the internet like a idot and bash the dead KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT !!!!!! his family dosent need people like you causing any more grief!!!!

-- Posted by jessica payne on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 11:44 pm EDT (Report this)

ok so the sad part is their is a young man whom lost his life regardless of what happend a young life was taken and another in critical condition and there is people who are as low to get on the internet and bash the young man whom is not here with us anymore? right wrong it dosent matter he was a son a grandson a brother a cousin a nephue a uncle a friend and a boyfriend and their are people who are mourning his death and they have to read whet you have wrote bashing him on the internet, not to mention before you go and bash some one who isnt here to defend theirself get your story strait. in my eyes i dont know how you can lay down tonight and go to sleep because its poeple like you who make me sick and its people like you piss me off. you can set and tell all his faults but you frogot to mention that he was the brave young man who risked his life and ran into a burning house to try and save his uncle (not his granpa hes still with us i seen him today) and he wrecked the truck (not into a house ) because he was so upset over the loss of the uncle that he tried to save, so before you have the balls to get onto the internet like a idot and bash the dead KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT !!!!!! his family dosent need people like you causing any more grief!!!!

-- Posted by jessica payne on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 11:44 pm EDT (Report this)

ok so the sad part is their is a young man whom lost his life regardless of what happend a young life was taken and another in critical condition and there is people who are as low to get on the internet and bash the young man whom is not here with us anymore? right wrong it dosent matter he was a son a grandson a brother a cousin a nephue a uncle a friend and a boyfriend and their are people who are mourning his death and they have to read whet you have wrote bashing him on the internet, not to mention before you go and bash some one who isnt here to defend theirself get your story strait. in my eyes i dont know how you can lay down tonight and go to sleep because its poeple like you who make me sick and its people like you piss me off. you can set and tell all his faults but you frogot to mention that he was the brave young man who risked his life and ran into a burning house to try and save his uncle (not his granpa hes still with us i seen him today) and he wrecked the truck (not into a house ) because he was so upset over the loss of the uncle that he tried to save, so before you have the balls to get onto the internet like a idot and bash the dead KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT !!!!!! his family dosent need people like you causing any more grief!!!!

-- Posted by jessica payne on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 11:44 pm EDT (Report this)

Hey Sharon, I am so sorry to hear about Mark.. If you guys need anything just let me know, It bothers me a lot for the reason i hadnt talked to him in a long time and i had tried to call Sunday to see if he wanted to go deer hunting but i couldnt remember the number so i kept calling the wrong ones... I will miss him and ill keep you guys in my prayers..

-- Posted by doobie on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 11:14 pm EDT (Report this)

i think you got tis jen and another jen mixxed up. this jen is not your son's pill supplier, and know's of no dr. elrod. someone should have stopped him sooner keeping him from behind the wheel.

-- Posted by Jen ----- on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 10:41 pm EDT (Report this)

i think you got tis jen and another jen mixxed up. this jen is not your son's pill supplier, and know's of no dr. elrod. someone should have stopped him sooner keeping him from behind the wheel.

-- Posted by Jen ----- on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 10:41 pm EDT (Report this)

jen tell the public the whold truth, you were sleeping with my son. Selling him drugs and giving them to him. By the scripts that your father keeps you in to party with your friends. Remember the dentist. Dr. Elrod I do believe. And on one occasion you were arrested in our drive after running from the police, sitting in the truck and taking as many pills that you could. And then putting the bottle up your vagina. What was your purse too small?? Because when you were searched by the cops they fell out!!! As far as Im concerned u and your father helped contribute to my sons addction,and death.

-- Posted by Sharon Payne, Johnson on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 7:42 pm EDT (Report this)

this is not this guy first issue he was drunk ran a truck through a house on morganton road a month or so a ago
and the night before that his house burnt with grandpa in it

sad sad sad

-- Posted by Jen ----- on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 1:43 pm EDT (Report this)

he was driving the f150

-- Posted by Jen ----- on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 1:39 pm EDT (Report this)

What was he driving? Was it the Saturn or the Ford F-150? It says both (???)

-- Posted by Mel Raines on Tue, Sep 30, 2008, 12:40 pm EDT (Report this)

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Man killed in accident on U.S. 321, woman critically injured

Jessica Stith
of The Daily Times Staff
Originally published: September 30. 2008 3:01AM
Last modified: September 30. 2008 4:54PM

A 25-year-old Maryville man was killed after his vehicle hit another vehicle head-on while traveling on West Lamar Alexander Parkway Monday night. The woman occupying the other vehicle was critically injured.

Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper John Pedigo said that Mark Anthony Payne, 25, Edna Garland Road, Maryville, was dead on arrival of emergency personnel at about 10 p.m.

Brittany Lynn Green, 21, Venice, Fla., was flown by Lifestar helicopter to University of Tennessee Medical Center where she was in critical condition today.

Pedigo said that Payne was driving a Ford F-150 southbound on U.S. 321. Green was traveling northbound in a 2001 Saturn Ion.

“When (Payne) passed Lane Drive, he lost control of his vehicle and crossed the median,” Pedigo said.

Payne’s vehicle traveled into the northbound lanes of the highway, hitting Green’s car head-on. She was traveling in the right-hand lane of the northbound side of the road.

“After hitting the Saturn, the Ford F-150 flipped over - partially ejecting (Payne) and pinning him under the vehicle,” Pedigo said.

Payne was not wearing his seat belt. Pedigo said a toxicology report has been requested on Payne.

Green’s dog was ejected from her vehicle during the crash, and Green was pinned inside. The insides of the vehicle were twisted around her, making it difficult for emergency personnel to extract her.

Members of Friendsville Volunteer Fire Department, Maryville Fire Department, Blount County Volunteer Rescue Squad and Rural/Metro Ambulance Service worked for more than an hour to free Green from the vehicle. She was wearing her seat belt.

Lifestar landed on the highway and then took Green to the hospital.

Green was following behind another vehicle driven by her fiance. Both of their vehicles were packed with their belongings and they were reportedly moving to Friendsville from Florida.

After the truck and car collided, another vehicle traveling northbound hit a tool box that had fallen off of Payne’s truck. That driver was not reported as injured.

Monday’s crash resulted in the 14th traffic fatality in Blount County this year. At this time in 2007, there had been 21 traffic fatalities.