A 75-year old woman died in a two vehicle collision Wednesday afternoon in Estill County.
Police said the crash happened at the Madison County Estill line, dead on scene Stephenie Schnittker. Officials said she crossed the center line and hit a van with ten people inside.
Delores Newton, a neighbor of the Schnittker’s said she knew something was wrong.
“I had received telephone calls asking for Dave’s telephone numbers, Stephenie’s husband. It just so happens that Sunday at church they had came by and told me they had cell phone numbers and not a land line anymore,” explained Delores Newton, a neighbor.
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Newton recalled Stephenie as a kind woman.
“Then I would see them at church she was a very talented lady she was an artist. She could play the piano and on Sunday both her and Dave sang in the choir,” stated Newton.
As Dave grapples with Stephenie’s loss, he said he knows she is in a better place. Dave is just one of many people who have lost a loved one on Highway 52.
“That’s a very busy highway and we actually try to give it extra patrol because of the high rate of speed that people travel and the high volume of traffic,” explained Saergant Harvey Baxter, with Kentucky State Police.
Wesley Rose lives on Highway 52. Last April, about a mile up the road, two of his family members died.
“Like I said I know 15 – 20 people that have got killed in the last 30-years on this road, so it’s pretty bad,” stated Rose.
Police said they aren’t sure what caused Schnittker to lose control, but they suspect it may have been a medical condition. We’re told seven of the ten people in van were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries.
