Posted on 06/06/2021 7:19:17 AM PDT by libertylover
Lexington Police say six people were killed in a crash Saturday afternoon on Interstate 75.
According to officials, the crash happened around 12:23 p.m. at the 104 mile marker.
Lexington police say officers were dispatched to reports of a wrong way driver. Before officers arrived, a head-on collision occurred.
Police say the driver of the wrong way vehicle, a 38-year-old woman, died at the scene.
A child in the other car was also found dead.
The 30-year-old driver of the second vehicle and three other children were taken to the hospital where they died of their injuries.
The Fayette County Coroner has not released the names of the six individuals.
A crash reconstruction unit worked the scene, and had the road shut down for hours. It re-opened just after 4:00 p.m.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Lexington Police Special Operations (Collision Reconstruction Unit) at (859) 258-3663
I wonder if the wrong-way driver was a drunk illegal alien? We’ve had several wrong-way driver deaths here in MN and most, if not all, have involved illegals.
Drunk driving seems to be the national pastime of Mexico and other Latin nations.
6 fatalities in this day and age of universal airbags and seat belts?
My guess, and it’s only a guess, the collision was at a VERY high speed.
My uninformed conclusion?
The wrong way driver was committing suicide, and in her tormented soul she didn’t give a single damn who else got hurt or died.
Sad all around.
The wrong way driver was committing suicide, and in her tormented soul she didn’t give a single damn who else got hurt or died.
The same is true in Florida. The heat plays a part in their consumption.
More here...
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article251923178.html
Wrong way driver was reported at least seven minutes before the crash and cops still couldn’t get there in time.
Depending how much electronic signage is along the route, might be a good idea to flash that info up on any signage until the cops can corral the offender.
*sigh* yeah
In my neck of the woods it’s driving high.
DWI is cheaper and far easier to prove, so more drivers are using other drugs.
An astonishing number of people don’t wear seat belts.
True, but I don’t quite know what to make of that in this context.
Before I dumped out locals, we had at least one a week in the Phoenix area.
A failure of imagination on my part. Not bucking in your kids?
I won’t even back my car out of the garage and onto the driveway without bucking up!
This same scenario happened to my cousin and his family several years ago. It killed my cousin, his wife, and two of his daughters. His oldest daughter, age 5, was the only one to survive. Luckily, she had family support and was adopted by her aunt. She graduated college last year.
We don’t know if it’s a factor in this incident, but a lot of children, even very young ones, are loose in the car.
I don’t leave the driveway (the van is too big for the garage) without a seatbelt, either, and all passengers are wearing them and sitting up straight.
“I wonder if the wrong-way driver was a drunk illegal alien? We’ve had several wrong-way driver deaths here in MN and most, if not all, have involved illegals.”
Certainly, we will soon discover the identity of the wrong way driver and then be able to make blanket claims upon her entire race/ethnic/nationality cohort.
How terrible. Very, very unusual, a similar thing happened in Lexington a few years ago. A young man driving the wrong way killed himself and an entire family. The family was driving home to Michigan after vacationing in Florida.
In 1993, I went to LA Paz, Bolivia on a media assignment. They lined the main Plaza Blvd with dozens of wrecked cars, many blood splattered. This was their government's way of sending a message and combating drunk driving.
One of the questions on the Darwin Test.
Not that I recall driving without fastening my seat belt, but the lesson was driven home during my tour in Germany. I averaged over 35000 miles a year in my car, as I was in an isolated unit (ever hear of a battery being 45 miles from battalion headquarters? I thought it was awesome...lol). At least a third of those miles were on the autobahn, my top speed was 120.
Summer of 79 I was TDY to a German antiaircraft range in Northern Germany, Todendorf, about 30 miles east of Kiel. Our support was in Bremerhaven 200 miles west. There was no way in hell I was making that trip in an Army jeep. I broke in my new Volvo 242GT on those twice weekly trips.
Yup, driving on the autobahn will assuredly prompt you to make sure your seat belt is fastened.
There was a case in Massachusetts of a guy in a Mercedes who rammed another car head-on in a suicide attempt, on a secondary road. Both people in the other car died, and he lived. He was sentenced for vehicular homicide. That is one hell of a way to die.
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