A man has been arrested and charged with DUI after his passenger died when he crashed his truck.
“The guy was out of the car but he was screaming and cursing and saying he didn’t want his girlfriend to die,” said Emily Dean, a witness.
Dean says she and her dad were on their way home when they saw a truck drive off the road and into a ditch.
They say the driver got out, but his girlfriend, was pinned underneath the truck.
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“All I heard was one siren and then someone was knocking on the door,” said Joyce Barber, a neighbor.
“I walked up here to the house to see if they had a block or something to put underneath the wheels,” said Walker Deering, a passerby. “In case it decide to fall.”
Deputies with the Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office said several people lifted the truck and pulled the woman out.
Shortly, thereafter, emergency workers arrived and the woman was flown to UK Hospital where she later died.
“That’s really sad,” said Barber. “It’s always sad to hear that.”
Deputies arrested the driver, Jeffery Tuggle, and charged him with DUI but believe those charged will likely be upgraded.
Barber lives just a few feet away from the accident and said speeding on the narrow, winding roads happens too often.
“Sometimes it looks like they’re driving on the interstate the way they drive past here,” said Barber.
“It’s not a really busy road,” said Deering. “But when cars speed, they fly.”
Deputies say as they investigate why Tuggle lost control of the truck, it appears the woman was thrown from it because she was not wearing a seat belt.
