Posted on March 30, 2012 in Car Accidents
Lexington police have asked for the public’s help in finding the driver who fled the scene of a fatal crash sometime after midnight on Saturday, March 24, 2012, leaving the victim lying by the side of Leestown Road until his body was finally discovered around 4:45 a.m. At a press conference March 27, which was…
Posted on March 30, 2012 in Car Accidents
The recent death of a Lansing, Michigan choir boy in a van rollover is a pointed reminder of the necessity of observing load limits on church vans and avoiding carrying too many passengers. A 15-passenger church van was transporting 17 people home from a choir performance in Grand Rapids when the van’s rear tire blew,…
Posted on March 22, 2012 in Car Accidents
A two-car crash at the interchange of I-24 and Highway 68 injured four people the evening of March 14, according to the West Kentucky Star. McCracken County Sheriff’s Deputies, who arrived at the scene shortly after 5 p.m., said in a press release that a car driven by Hema Venkata Vemuri, 29, of Cape Girardeau,…
Posted on March 15, 2012 in Car Accidents
Two Princeton residents were injured on March 8, 2012, in a head-on crash on KY 293 in Caldwell County, the West Kentucky Star reports. Two small children in one of the cars apparently escaped injury. The crash occurred around 4:15 p.m., as Angela Harp, 27, of Princeton, was heading south on KY 293. Near mile…
Posted on March 7, 2012 in Car Accidents
We have reported many times on the various driving risks in Kentucky. However, drunk drivers and teenaged drivers are particularly dangerous – but when the two merge, far too many young lives are lost. A new study by researchers at the Mayo Clinic highlights the risks of drinking among teenagers, and their findings are distressing. …