A Morgantown woman and Tennessee woman were killed in the second wrong-way crash in four days that resulted in multiple fatalities.
Tuesday night at approximately 10:00, Kentucky State Police responded to the wreck near the 2-mile marker of northbound I-165 in Warren County.
Police said the preliminary investigation indicated that a Chevrolet Cruze, being driven by 44-year-old Angela Dockery, of Morgantown, was traveling south in the northbound lane when the Cruze struck a northbound Dodge Charger head-on. The Dodge was being driven by 23-year-old Kindley Demontigny, of Henderson, Tennessee.
Dockery was pronounced deceased at the scene. Demontigny was transported to The Medical Center at Bowling Green were she later died of her injuries.
The ongoing investigation is being led by Trooper Michael Wathen.
The Graves County Sheriff’s Office said that on Saturday night at approximately 7:45, deputies responded to a call indicating a Chevrolet Trax had “mistakenly ramped on to the southbound lanes of I-69 … traveling northbound in the southbound lanes.”
While en route, police were notified of a head-on collision involving the wrong-way vehicle between the 26- and 27-mile markers of the interstate.
The investigation, police said, showed that the northbound Chevrolet, being driven by 68-year-old Shirley Ballard, of Mayfield, collided head-on with a southbound Toyota Corolla, being driven by 21-year-old Colten Blankenship, of Vienna, Illinois.
Blankenship was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Graves County Coroner’s Office. His two passengers, 18-year-old Alexander McLean, of Eddyville, and 22-year-old Daniel Guasp, of Nortonville, were both airlifted; McLean to Jackson Purchase Medical Center, and Guasp to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Both were later pronounced deceased.
Ballard was airlifted to a “Memphis area hospital” in critical condition, the sheriff’s office said.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
