Smith County, TN- According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Timothy Burton, 61, of Silver Point, Tennessee, died after crashing into the back of a tractor-trailer around 4 p.m on Saturday on Interstate 40.

The tractor-trailer, driven by Geronimo Borrell, 56, of Hialeah, Florida, was parked on the shoulder near mile marker 261 east of the Gordonsville-Carthage area due to vehicle malfunction. Burton was traveling east in a Ford F150 truck when he left the right lane onto the right shoulder and struck the back of the tractor-trailer. Borrell had just deployed his safety markers when the accident occurred. The Rescue Squad had to extricate the subject from the vehicle. Burton died on the scene.