Video released of suspected truck that hit, critically injured Nashville business owner

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Metro Nashville police have released a video of the suspected truck that hit and critically injured a Nashville business owner on June 19.

Police are continuing to work to identify the pickup truck driver that hit and injured 42-year-old Matthew Carney, the owner of the Smokin Thighs Restaurant. Now, police believe that the vehicle is a 2001-2004 gray/silver Nissan Frontier with black rims.

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The truck can partially be seen in a surveillance video released by MNPD. The pickup truck came from the rear of Smokin Thighs on Wedgewood Avenue just before 6 p.m. at a high rate of speed, MNPD said.

Carney was thrown off the truck onto the Wedgewood Avenue pavement, police said. The truck is believed to have turned right onto nearby Bransford Avenue.

The victim remains hospitalized at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Officers have not been able to interview him due to his medical condition.

“Carney’s vehicle was parked in the rear of the restaurant on June 19. It was found running with the door open. It has not been determined what occurred in the rear parking lot between Carney and the unknown driver of the pickup truck,” police said.

If you have any information in this case, you’re asked to call Nashville Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.

“Reward money totaling more than $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the driver,” police said.

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