Two men perished Monday morning in a fiery head-on wrong-way crash on the Bluegrass Parkway.
The accident occurred at approximately 5:30 Monday morning near the 53-mile marker of the parkway in Mercer County.
The Mercer County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets that a westbound driver entered the eastbound lanes and struck another vehicle head-on.
Anderson County Dispatch had received a report of a wrong-way driver not long prior to the accident.
Police identified the wrong-way driver as Donald Jackson, of Cynthiana. He is thought to have been in his late 70s or early 80s, news outlets report. Police added that it’s possible Jackson suffered a medical emergency prior to the crash.
The identity of the other driver, a 32-year-old, has not been released.
Mercer Co. Sheriff Ernie Kelty, who was traveling in the area on personal business, arrived soon after the crash.
“Both vehicles were fully engulfed,” Kelty told media outlets. “There was nothing anyone there could do.”
(Photo: Bluegrass Parkway crash scene, courtesy of WKYT.com)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
