A WRECK AT THE INTERSECTION OF GREENVILLE ROAD AND CAVE STREET MONDAY AFTERNOON INJURED SIX.

STATE POLICE SAY THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND TEN MINUTES BEFORE THREE O’CLOCK WHEN FORMER HOPKINSVILLE MAYOR AL RUTLAND WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN SOUTH ONTO GREENVILLE ROAD AND TURNED INTO THE PATH OF A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 19-YEAR OLD KIONE BERRY OF HOPKINSVILLE.

BERRY ATTEMPTED TO AVOID A COLLISION, BUT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. RUTLAND’S VEHICLE STRUCK THE PASSENGER SIDE OF BERRY’S, KNOCKING IT OFF THE ROADWAY AND INTO A DITCH. BERRY AND TWO PASSENGERS—26-YEAR OLD KEVIN WHITE AND 24-YEAR OLD JEREMY SHARBER OF HOPKINSVILLE WERE TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER BY AMBULANCE BEFORE SHARBER WAS TRANSFERRED BY HELLICOPTER TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER.

6-MONTH OLD JEREMIAH SHARBER OF HOPKINSVILLE WAS REMOVED FROM THE SCENE BY AIR-EVAC AND TAKEN TO VANDERBILT. MAYOR RUTLAND WAS TAKEN BY PRIVATE VEHICLE TO JENNIE STUART AND HIS PASSENGER, 54-YEAR OLD DANIEL HODGE OF HOPKINSVILLE, WAS TAKEN TO JENNIE STUART BY AMBULANCE.

GREENVILLE ROAD REMAINED SHUT DOWN FOR OVER AN HOUR WHILE STATE POLICE RECONSTRUCTED THE SCENE.
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