A local dump truck driver had a close call last week after his truck left the roadway and nearly overturned.

Tennessee Highway Patrol officials say that the truck driver, 47-year-old Ernest Dodd, was traveling east on Vaughn Lane in Smithville when the truck went off the left side of the road, into a ditch line, and tipped over on its side.

The truck was loaded with gravel at the time for Jewel’s Construction. Dodd was not injured in the crash.