SATURDAY WRECK IN HOPKINSVILLE INJURES ONE

            A TWO-VEHICLE WRECK ON SOUTH MAIN STREET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON INJURED ONE.

            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAY THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 3PM WHEN 33-YEAR OLD JOEY OLIVER OF ELKTON WAS REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTING TO CROSS SOUTH MAIN ON WEST 17TH STREET AND DROVE INTO THE PATH OF A VEHICLE OPERATED BY 31-YEAR OLD TRICIA PITTARD OF HOPKINSVILLE.

            OLIVER TOLD OFFICERS HE DIDN’T SEE PITTARD COMING, THOUGH A WITNESS TOLD POLICE IT DIDN’T LOOK LIKE OLIVER CAME TO A FULL STOP AT THE STOP SIGN.

            MS. PITTARD WAS TAKEN TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER FOR BACK PAIN, WHILE EVERYONE ELSE INVOLVED WENT UNINJURED.

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11/20/2011/AM