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KSP Semi Crash Wrap-up: Drivers' names. KYTC: All lanes open

KSP Injury Collision on the Cumberland Parkway in Metcalfe County

UPDATE LANES OPEN (5:37amCT, Thu 29 Mar 2018) All lanes have reopened on the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway in Metcalfe County. WES WATT, KYTC-D03)

By Sgt. Jason Morris
Public Information Officer, Region 2, Kentucky State Police

EDMONTON, KY (29 Mar 2018) - Kentucky State Police investigated a two vehicle injury collision this morning at 5:01am CT on the Cumberland Parkway near the Metcalfe, Adair County Line, resulting in the parkway being closed for more than 10 hours.



Preliminary investigations show 58 year-old Randy Johnson of Glasgow, KY, was operating a 2017 Volvo traveling east on the parkway. Johnson for an unknown reason lost control of his vehicle entering the median traveling into the west bound lanes.

Johnsons vehicle traveled off the roadway striking an earth embankment leaving his trailer crossways in the roadway.

47 year-old William Davis of Madisonville was operating a 2010 Freightliner traveling west on the parkway when he struck the trailer trapping him in his vehicle. Davis was extricated from the vehicle by the Adair County and Metcalfe County Fire and Rescue Squads.

Johnson and Davis were wearing their seat belts and were transported to T. J. Samson Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Sergeant Randy Honeycutt is investigating the collision and was assisted on scene by the Metcalfe County Sheriff's Office, Fire and Rescue, Adair County Fire and Rescue, and Barren-Metcalfe County EMS.


This story was posted on 2018-03-29 17:55:50
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Exit 33 to Cumberland/LBN Pkwy still blocked - Greensburg Road



2018-03-29 - Edmonton, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener.
The exit from US 68/70, Edmonton, KY eastbound onto the Cumberland Pkwy was blocked by KY Transportation vehicles and North Metcalfe EMS. Westbound traffic still flowing at approximately 9:10amCT when this photo was taken. View toward town on Greensburg Road. - LW. Clicking Read More accesses an official report on the accident by Sgt Jason Morris, Public Affairs Officer with the Kentucky State Police.

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Semi-collision site, MP 31 Cumberland Pkwy - 29 Mar 2018



2018-03-29 - Metcalfe Co., KY MP 31, Cumberland/LBN Parkway - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Well over a dozen vehicles were still at the site of the a injury collision involving two semi-trucks on the Cumberland Parkway before daylight this morning, barely west of the Adair-Metcalfe County line, when this photo was taken just after 11amCT. The vehicles are in the East Bound lane, toward Columbia. Both Eastbound lanes were closed. Traffic on the Westbound side was moving with little impediment. Clicking Read More accesses an official report on the accident by Sgt Jason Morris, Public Affairs Officer with the Kentucky State Police.

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At Cumberland/LBN Pkwy Clean Up, MP 31 at 11:15amCT



2018-03-29 - Cumberland Parkway, MP 31, Metcalfe County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
A Coca-Cola van, in the median, and a potato-chip semi-van on the shoulder and vehicles involved in clearing the wreckage and controlling traffic were still keeping the eastbound lanes closed at 11:15amCT, Thursday, March 29, 2018, when this photo was taken. One motorist, commuting from Cumberland County to her work in Glasgow who passed by the scene of the crash in the dark rainy hours of drive-to-work time, couldn't make out what the wreckage, was. "I thought a plane had crashed," she said. She still hadn't had word if the lanes were reopened at time to go home from work. - EW

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Overview, collision scene, MP 31, Metcalfe from Adair Co., KY



2018-03-29 - Cumberland/Louie B Nunn Parkway, Edmonton, KY - Photo ColumbiaMagazine.com .
This grainy cellphone picture does show the familiar location on the parkway where the two semi's collided today, it's looking west, from the Adair County side with the more recent blacktopping rotation, with darker pavement, across the county line. - EW

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Commuter thought semi-collision might have been aircraft



2018-03-30 - Metcalfe Co., KY/immediately west of Adair County line, Cumberland/LBN Parkway - Photo by Jane.
Westbound commuter Jane says that with the dim light, glare of oncoming lights, she thought the wreckage was of an aircraft, and only learned after reaching Akebono in Glasgow that the scene was the result of two semi's colliding. Clicking Read More accesses "Wrap-up of the days news accounts, with sequenced links to all items in story, along with album of the days' related photos. - EW

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