October 13, 2011 – Shelby County, Ky. – A man was killed in a single-vehicle car accident on Wednesday, October 12.
WAVE 3 reports that the accident happened at about 8:50 a.m. on Interstate 64, near the 34 mile marker. Police said that a 1998 Ford Explorer ran off of the roadway and crashed into an earth embankment. The SUV then overturned multiple times, finally crashing to a stop approximately 50 feet away from the highway.
The Ford’s driver, Matthew Hensley, of Waddy, was thrown from his vehicle as it rolled. Hensley was pronounced dead at the scene.
Witnesses on the scene said that Hensley had engaged in acts of road rage with the driver of a red, late model pickup truck shortly before the accident. Though the truck and the SUV never crashed into one another, it appears that the driver of the truck had a part in causing the accident.
The accident is under ongoing investigation by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s 2009 Kentucky Crash Statistics, there were 791 fatalities as a result of traffic accidents in Kentucky.
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