HOPKINS COUNTY LEADS PENNYRILE IN DEER COLLISSIONS

            IF LAST YEAR’S STATISTICS ARE ANY INDICATION, YOU BETTER BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS FOR DEER WHEN DRIVING IN HOPKINS COUNTY.

            THERE WERE 133 VEHICLE VERSUS DEER WRECKS IN HOPKINS COUNTY IN 2010, ACCORDING TO DATA RELEASED BY THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, WHICH WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER IN KENTUCKY.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY ALSO HAD A HIGH NUMBER OF INCIDENTS AT 66, WHILE TODD AND TRIGG HAD 16 EACH. THERE WERE 22 DEER WRECKS IN CALDWELL COUNTY, 68 IN MUHLENBERG AND 28 IN LOGAN.

            THERE’S NO REAL WAY TO PINPOINT WHY HOPKINS COUNTY WOULD HAVE SO MANY DEER COLLISSIONS, BUT ONE WOULD HAVE TO BELIEVE THE SPEED OF MOTORISTS ON THE PENNYRILE AND WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAYS WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT.

            THOSE NUMBERS ONLY ACCOUNT FOR THE WRECKS CALLED INTO POLICE AND NOT ONES WHERE THE DRIVER MADE OTHER ARRANGEMENTS. AS ALWAYS, MOTORISTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SLOW DOWN THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AND TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE ANIMALS.

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