For the calendar years 2000 through 2009, amongst 52 metropolitan areas, Louisville has been ranked 19th concerning pedestrian fatalities. In a recent report by Transportation for America, a safety-advocacy organization, the Louisville, Kentucky area had a “pedestrian danger index” rating of 95.7. That rating was based upon 192 pedestrian fatalities…
Two people have died from an automobile crash in Lexington, Kentucky. It has been reported that a Mercedes Benz was traveling a high rate of speed after the University of Kentucky Campus Police attempted to stop the vehicle. The auto accident happened on East High Street. As the car traveled…
Cecil Johnson of Lancaster, Kentucky, age 61, died late Saturday after his motorcycle left the roadway, struck a ditch and flipped several times. The Kentucky motorcycle accident occurred on Moran Mill Road in Madison County, Kentucky. Alcohol is a suspected factor. This was reported as a single vehicle accident. Anytime…
According to the Kentucky State Police, via a press release, eleven people died in eleven separate Kentucky automobile crashes and Kentucky motor vehicle accidents on Kentucky roadways from Monday, July 25 through Sunday, July 31 of this year. Families who have lost loved ones in Kentucky car, truck, motorcycle, or…
On Sunday evening around 8:48 p.m. a vehicle driven by Antione Nichols, age 27, crossed the center line of Blue Lick Road and struck a vehicle in on coming traffic, resulting in a tragic Lousville car crash. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured, but both Nichols and…
Two women in Calloway County, Kentucky were injured this weekend on Almo Road after a drunk driver crossed the center line and struck their vehicle. Emily Stockwell was transported from the scene of the accident to Murray-Calloway County Hospital, and Rachel Stockwell was airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center. The driver…
Kentucky motorcycle crash: A motorcycle and car accident in Oldham County, Kentucky has resulted in the death of Robert Tooley, Jr., age 42. Mr. Tooley was riding a Suzuki motorcycle shortly after 10:00 p.m. when the accident occurred at the intersection of Ky 146 and Floydsburg Road. Mr. Tooley has…
A car and a motorcycle collided last Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, killing the motorcyclist David Woosley, of Louisville, KY. Woosley’s motorcycle was struck by a Saturn on the Watterson Expressway between the Dixie Highway and Cane Run Road exits. The driver of the Saturn, the passenger of Woosley’s motorcycle, and…
Johnathan Powell, age 18, of Oldham County, KY, was killed in a single vehicle accident. Powell was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash after the Ford F-250 he was a passenger in hit a guardrail and left the roadway. The driver of the vehicle and another passenger, Clinton…
Six year old Ron-deja Lynn Stevenson was pronounced dead Tuesday at Kosair Childrens Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky after being found Saturday at the bottom of the Holiday Inn Lakeview swimming pool. The cause of death has been determined to be complications from a near drowning. The child had been found…