A YOUNG MAN FROM FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY WAS AIRLIFTED TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AFTER A TWO-VEHICLE WRECK IN CALLOWAY COUNTY YESTERDAY.

            STATE POLICE SAY 17-YEAR OLD MARSHALL PEACHEY OF FULTON FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL WHILE EASTBOUND ON KENTUCKY 94 AROUND 12:25 PM AND CROSSED THE CENTER LINE. PEACHEY STRUCK A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY WILDA RICHARDSON OF MURRAY BEFORE STRIKING A DITCH AND OVERTURNING SEVERAL TIMES.

            PEACHEY AND HIS PASSENGER, 18-YEAR OLD AARON KOEHN OF SEDALIA, WERE EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE. ALL THREE INVOLVED WERE TAKEN TO MURRAY CALLOWAY COUNTY HOSPITAL, THOUGH KOEHN WOULD BE TRANSPORTED TO VANDERBILT. BOTH DRIVERS WERE TREATED AND RELEASED.

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11/11/2011/AM

            A HOPKINSVILLE MAN WAS INVOLVED IN A WRECK ON THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY IN HOPKINS COUNTY THURSDAY.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 1PM NEAR THE 42 MILE-MARKER, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT FROM STATE POLICE, WHICH SAYS 29-YEAR OLD VICTOR STEELE OF GREENVILLE WAS WESTBOUND ON THE PARKWAY WHEN HE TOOK HIS EYES OFF THE ROAD MOMENTARILY TO REACH FOR SOMETHING IN THE FLOORBOARD.

            THAT’S WHEN HE RAN INTO THE BACK OF A TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVEN BY 45-YEAR OLD KELLY JONES OF HOPKINSVILLE. BOTH VEHICLES CAME TO REST IN THE EMERGENCY LANE, WITH STEELE TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR HIS INJURIES AND JONES NOT HURT.

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11/11/2011/AM

            A FIRE WHICH BEGAN IN A GARAGE SPREAD INTO A WOODLINE THIS AFTERNOON, REQUIRING FOUR FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO PUT IT OUT.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR RANDY GRAHAM SAYS THE FIRST PAGE WENT OUT AROUND 2:30 TO A FIRE IN THE DEAD END OF HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD.

            A GARAGE BURNED DOWN, DESTROYING A VEHICLE INSIDE AND SPREADING INTO THE WOODS. UNITS FROM THE WEST SIDE, HIGHLAND, SQUARE DEAL AND HERNDON DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED AND HAD THE BLAZE UNDER CONTROL BY 4 O’CLOCK.

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            AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WAS STOLEN FROM A CHRSTIAN COUNTY FARMER.

            DAVID DRAPER OF BUTLER ROAD TOLD SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES SOMEONE REMOVED A $6,000 CULTIPACKER SOMETIME BETWEEN THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER AND THIS WEDNESDAY FROM A PIECE OF LAND ON ROGERS JOHNSON ROAD.

            DRAPER SAYS SOMEONE LIKELY STOLE THE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO SELL FOR THE METAL. NO SUSPECTS ARE LISTED ON THE REPORT.

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            AREA POLICE CONTINUE TO WARN OF A HIGHER THAN NORMAL FREQUENCY OF VEHICLE-VERSUS-DEER WRECKS THIS FALL.

            CLARKSVILLE POLICE SPOKESMAN JIM KNOLL WARNED OF THE DANGER EARLIER IN THE WEEK IN A STORY ON WHOP NEWS AND SAID THERE WERE 11 WRECKS INVOLVING DEER BETWEEN 6PM WEDNESDAY AND 9:30 AM THURSDAY IN THE CITY LIMITS OF CLARKSVILLE ALONE.

            OFFICER KNOLL WARNS MOTORISTS TO BE CAREFUL AND ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE ANIMALS WHICH ARE MORE ACTIVE THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.

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