Seven people were hurt, and two of them had life threatening injuries, after a crash in Powell County on Thursday.
The four vehicle wreck happened on Hardwicks Creek Road about a mile South of Clay City. Sadly, LEX 18 News found out this isn’t the first tragedy on this stretch of road.
There was mangled metal, wrecked cars, and more than half a dozen people hurt. However, it’s a sight people on Hardwicks Creek road are used to seeing.
“This is a dangerous stretch of road,” said Stanton Fire Chief Eddie Barnes. “There’s been probably four or five people killed up through here in the last two years,” added David Patrick, who lives next to where Thursday’s crash happened.
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Investigators said it all started around 4:30 p.m. when three teens in a white mustang went too fast around a curve. “My grandson, he just got in from school and he said that he heard loud cars squealing and a loud racket,” said Patrick. The noise was the mustang hitting a van that was towing a truck in the other lane.
“Kind of side swiped them, and according to witnesses it was about like a sling shot affect and pushed him over into the red car head on,” said Barnes. The crash was so bad emergency officials had to call in back up ambulances.
Firefighters said the man and the woman in the red car suffered life threatening head injuries and had to be air lifted to UK Hospital. One of the teens also had serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Lexington. The other four people involved in the wreck went to Clark Regional Hospital in Winchester, but should be okay.
“It could have been worse, of course worse being death, but let’s hope everybody makes it,” said Barnes. “I hope all of them are okay and they survive. And maybe they will get a second chance and be a little bit more careful next time,” added Patrick.
Emergency officials said one person in the white mustang was not wearing a seat-belt. As of Thursday night it was not clear if there were contributing factors other than speed.
