A man was taken to the hospital following a collision Wednesday afternoon for treatment of possible injuries to the neck and back. No other parties involved in the accident were injured, including the young children involved.
Water-slicked roads caused a two-vehicle collision on 25E Wednesday afternoon, when a white passenger car slid into a gray SUV as the drivers attempted to slow down.
Kentucky State Police (KSP) Vehicle Enforcement Trooper Jason Freeman responded to the scene, and reported that inclement weather was the cause of the accident. He also said that most subjects involved were unharmed.
“There’s only one person that is being transported to the hospital and he was complaining of neck and back pain,” Freeman disclosed.
According to Trooper Freeman, the driver of a gray SUV began slowing down as he descended Log Mountain, traveling north. The white passenger vehicle behind him, carrying an unidentified woman and infant, attempted to do the same, but was unable to stop on the slick roadway. The car hit the SUV in the rear, causing extensive damage to the front of the car, but luckily not to the baby, the car’s driver, or the children and adult passengers in the other vehicle. The driver of the SUV, however, was taken to the hospital by ambulance after reporting back and neck pain.
The infant in the car and the youngest child in the SUV were in car seats. The condition of the SUV’s driver is unknown. KSP Trooper Keith Baker and the Bell County Rescue Squad assisted at the scene.
Lorie Settles is a staff writer for the Middlesboro Daily News. She may be contacted via e-mail at lsettles@heartlandpublications.com.
also, the driver of the suv was injured as was the front passenger, the back adult passenger, and the oldest child. the front passenger only refused to ride in the ambulance because she had her two young grandchildren in the car with her and it is against ems policy to transport more than two people at a time. she was later taken from pineville community hospital by ambulance (because weather conditions prevented flying) to UK hospital with a broken vertebrae.