A man has been killed in a motorcycle accident in Hardin County.
Kentucky State Police said it received information about an eastbound motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed as it traveled west on Bardstown Road (Hwy 62) near the Elizabethtown city limits.
“Moments later, KSP received a call from the Elizabethtown Police Department stating the motorcycle had collided with a concrete culvert near the intersection of Bardstown Road and Botto Avenue,” Kentucky State Police Post 4 Public Affairs Officer Scotty Sharp said.
The preliminary investigation, Sharp said, revealed that 29-year-old Nicholas Carr, of Chestnut Mound, Tennessee, “was driving a Kawasaki Ninja at a high rate of speed east on Bardstown Road when he lost control and ran off the roadway and struck a concrete culvert.”
Sharp continued, saying that “investigators learned that 30 minutes before, a motorist on I-65 had called KSP Post 3 in Bowling Green about a motorcycle traveling north on I-65 at a high rate of speed and in a reckless manner. A Post 4 trooper observed Carr near the 87-mile marker but, due to high speeds, was not able to continue to observe the motorcycle, and it was soon lost.”
Carr was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Hardin County Coroner’s Office.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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