A dump truck overturned on the Western Kentucky Parkway just east of Leitchfield on Friday, taking out a large section of guardrail.
Friday morning a few minutes before 9:00, the Leitchfield Police (sheriff’s office personnel were in Falls of Rough at the time of the wreck) and Fire Departments, EMS, and Kentucky Transportation Cabinet road workers responded to the accident between the 108- and 109-mile markers of the westbound parkway.
Upon arriving at the scene, first responders found that the front passenger side tire of a dump truck, hauling concrete grindings — from the the road work being completed further west on the parkway — blew out, causing the driver to lose control. The truck destroyed a 50-foot section of guardrail as the vehicle left the roadway and rolled onto its side.
The male driver was not injured.
Traffic on the westbound parkway was reduced to one lane until being shut down for about an hour as workers removed the vehicle. The parkway was reopened to normal traffic flow at 10:57 a.m.
By Ken Howlett,News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
