SEMI VS VEHICLE ACCIDENT INJURES ELDERLY COUPLE IN TRIGG COUNTY
AN ELDERLY CHRISTIAN COUNTY COUPLE SUFFERED MULTIPLE INJURIES IN A SEMI VS. PASSENGER CAR ACCIDENT THURSDAY MORNING. KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY 48-YEAR-OLD JAMES KERN OF PEMBROKE EASTBOUND WAS 1996 PETERBILT SEMI PULLING A TANKER. KERN HAD STOPPED THE TRUCK, TURNED ON HIS HAZARD FLASHERS AND WAS ATTEMPTING TO BACK INTO THE DRIVEWAY AT 8118 ROARING SPRINGS ROAD TO RECEIVE A LOAD OF MILK WHEN HE SAW A PASSENGER VEHICLE RAPIDLY APPROACHING. KERN ATTEMPTED TO PULL FORWARD TO AVOID COLLISION BUT THE VEHICLE STRUCK THE TRUCK IN THE REAR. 80-YEAR-OLD WALTER BREWER JR. OF HERNDON AND HIS WIFE: 76-YEAR-OLD JOAN BREWER WERE EXTRACTED FROM HIS NISSAN AND WERE TRANSPORTED TO JENNY STEWART HOSPITAL IN HOPKINSVILLE. JOAN BREWER WAS THEN AIRLIFTED BY AIR EVAC TO VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER IN NASHVILLE. JAMES KERN AND HIS PASSENGER, 50-YEAR-OLD SAMMY KNIGHT OF LEWISBURG, WERE NOT INJURED. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ABOUT ONE HALF MILE INSIDE TRIGG COUNTY AT APPROXIMATELY 10:46AM.
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