DICKSON, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – A 19-year-old in Tennessee died after he crashed head-on into his uncle days before Thanksgiving.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, a 2012 Nissan Titan and a 2014 GMC Sierra were both traveling on Thompson Road at about 3:30 p.m.
The Nissan, driven by 19-year-old Joshua Lugg, was traveling west, while the GMC, driven by his uncle was traveling east.
Officials said Lugg was trying to turn on this curve when he miscalculated, drifted into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into a truck his uncle was driving and into a ditch.
“He was my world, my rock my sunshine,” Lugg’s mother Joanna Crain said.
Crain and her mother Joy Dotson got a call moments after the crash.
“There’s a blind curve about a half a mile from where we live, him and another vehicle that my son was driving hit head on,” Dotson said. “My grandson, from what we’ve been told, passed instantly.”
Hearing those words was the moment Dotson said her family’s hearts were completely broken.
“My grandkids are my life, my daughter and my son, that’s my whole world. We don’t know what to do without him,” Dotson said.
Crain said she still couldn’t believe her baby was gone.
“There wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t get a good morning hug and a kiss from him, and a day that I didn’t give him a kiss before he left out the door to go to school,” Crain said.
Lugg’s family weren’t the only ones brokenhearted.
He was a member of Dickson County Future Farmers of America the organization dedicated a post to him asking for prayers.
“He just visited the vo-tech school for his future, he wanted to be a farm diesel agriculture mechanic, but God just had other plans. I don’t understand right now, and it will be a long time before I do, but the world lost a wonderful young man,” Dotson said.
Crain said this world will never be the same.
“No matter how bad your day was, he’d always put a smile on your face, always,” Crain said.
Family members said Lugg’s uncle, Randle Dotson, is being treated at a hospital for 12 fractured ribs.
They said while Dotson heals from his injuries, the family will spend time planning to say their final goodbyes to Josh.
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