Automobile Accidents

• Fair Ride Injures Two Children

  Lee Coleman | August 01, 2007 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  It's that time of year again, county fairs going on and the carnival rides the children love. But how safe are those rides? The Department of Agriculture is responsible for inspecting just once a year those rides here in Kentucky. Two children were injured in Mercer County when the lap bar on the "Sizzler" failed while the ride was moving, a six year old boy had a cut on his head and his seven...

• Fatal Motorcycle Crash In Todd County

  Lee Coleman | July 31, 2007 12:28 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  An accident on KY 104 in Todd County claimed the life of one and injured two others. A 1990 pickup truck was northbound on KY 104 in a small curve when the driver of a motorcycle going southbound locked his brakes up and slid into the pickup truck head on. The driver of the pickup truck and a passenger was taken to Gateway Medical Center. The motorcycle driver was pronounced dead at the scene...

• Teen Dies From Tuesday's Northern Kentucky Crash

  Lee Coleman | July 26, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  The 14 year old girl who was in the pickup truck with her mother and 8 year old brother Tuesday that was broadsided at an intersection by a semi has died from her injuries. Her mother remains in critical condition and the 8 year old brother is still in the hospital. The semi was hauling a load of steel plates that spilled after the semi overturned. The plates struck a car with a West Virginia...

• Six People Injured in Chain Reaction Accident in Northern Kentucky

  Lee Coleman | July 25, 2007 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  A crash involving four vehicles on Kentucky's AA Highway in Alexandria Tuesday afternoon sent six people to the hospital. A semi-tractor trailer loaded with steel plates lost control at an intersection, running a crane into a ditch, broad-sided a pickup truck, turning the semi on it's side causing it to lose the load of plates that scattered across the southbound lanes and northbound lanes where...

• Lexington Man Killed In One Car Accident

  Lee Coleman | July 24, 2007 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  A 51 year old Lexington man was killed Sunday when the car he was riding in overturned after hitting an embankment. The driver was a 38 year old woman from Lexington. She was unable to negotiate a curve and overcorrected then traveled off the right side of the road again striking the embankment, overturning the 1998 Toyota Avalon. The Lexington man was ejected through the sunroof, he was not...

• Two Car Wreck in Floyd County Kills One

  Lee Coleman | July 19, 2007 4:39 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  A man was killed in a two car accident in Floyd County around 6 p.m. Wednesday. Police say the accident happened on Kentucky Route 122 when a vehicle traveling west was hit by a vehicle that was going east that crossed the center line and hit head-on. The driver going west was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver was taken to the hospital where the extent of his injuries were unknown....

• Fatal Crash on US 41A in Hopkins County

  Lee Coleman | July 17, 2007 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  An accident in Hopkins County has left two people dead. According to Kentucky State Police a vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed and passed several vehicles and apparently lost control. The vehicle left the right side of the roadway gong into a ditch and striking a culvert causing the vehicle to flip. Both the driver and the passenger were ejected and neither were wearing seatbelts at...

• Four Car Crash Kills Four Near Williamsburg, Ky

  Lee Coleman | July 11, 2007 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  A multi-vehicle crash on I-75 has left four people dead and several injured. A truck pulling a trailer crossed the median and hit three other vehicles killing 4 and injuring 9 others. One woman who was killed was 8 months pregnant. Nine others had to be transported to area hospitals. State Police say that it appears alcohol may have been a contributing factor in the fatal accident.

• Four Car Crashes Kill Four Near Williamsburg, Ky

  Lee Coleman | July 11, 2007 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  A multi-vehicle crash on I-75 has left four people dead and several injured. A truck pulling a trailer crossed the median and hit three other vehicles killing 4 and injuring 9 others. One woman who was killed was 8 months pregnant. Nine others had to be transported to area hospitals. State Police say that it appears alcohol may have been a contributing factor in the fatal accident.For more...

• Tour Bus Crashes On I-65 Near Franklin Ky

  Lee Coleman | July 10, 2007 8:47 AM | 0 CommentsBowling Green, KY

  Another bus crash for I-65 in less than a month. A bus carrying a load of children from Smyrna, Tennessee ran into the rear of a tractor trailer near Franklin, Ky around noon yesterday. The semi driver said that traffic was merging left due to a vehicle in the emergency lane when a motorcycle in front of him slowed to a near stop, he had to hit his brakes hard to avoid hitting the motorcycle and...