Whitley County, KY Injury Accident Leaves Truck on Fire -- Injures Two
A semi-truck wreck on I-75 in Whitley County, Kentucky resulted in a semi being engulfed in flames and two people being injured.
Kentucky State Police in London, Kentucky report that a teal (blue/green), 2000, International, tractor-trailer, operated by Aleata L. Butts, 34, of Milledgeville, GA was traveling southbound on I-75 when it approached a slower moving blue and gray, 1988, Ford, Econoline, van operated by Donald E. Springman, 81, of Blanchester, OH. The tractor-trailer struck the van in the rear before striking a guardrail, a concrete bridge side rail and then becoming engulfed in flames. The van did not catch fire.
Both operators sustaine injuries. Mr. Springman was transported to the Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin for treatment.
Seat belts were in use and no drug or alcohol use was suspected.
