GRAVEL SWITCH - A Marion County man was killed and his passenger was injured Saturday in a one-vehicle crash, state police said.
John Wesley Hill, 30, of Mays Chapel Road, Lebanon, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Marion County coroner.
James Robert Spalding, 18, of Lebanon, was airlifted from the scene to University of Louisville Hospital.
The accident occurred between on Tatum Lane four miles west of Gravel Switch, according to Trooper Les Moses. The 1978 Chevrolet flatbed truck driven by Hill was headed east when it left the road and went over a steep embankment before coming to rest upside down in a ravine, Moses said.
Neither was wearing a seat belt.
