Dump Truck

A dump-truck driver suffered mild injuries Friday after his vehicle overturned on Ky. 169. The truck carrying sand was headed southeast on the highway between South Elkhorn Road and U.S. 68 around 10 a.m. when the driver got too close to the right side of the two-lane road and then over-corrected, Jessamine County sheriff's Sgt. Andy Neyman said. “It looks like he over-corrected and then his weight shifted because of the load and it pulled him back off the road again,” Neyman said.

Clark County deputies Paul Howard and Ernie Evans, right, top photo, investigate an accident involving a Winchester Municipal Utilities spreader truck and a dirt bike ridden by Hunter Blythe, 13 of Los Angeles, Calif., about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on Van Meter Road. Blythe and three other teens were riding dirt bikes and a dune buggy up a private lane when Blythe couldn't stop and rode into the path of the truck driven by 41-year-old Anthony C. Crouch of 2299 Crowe Ridge Road. Blythe was transported to Clark Regional Medical Center and airlifted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

MIDDLEBURG - Janice Patterson, 51, of Middleburg, died Saturday from multiple injuries suffered in an Aug. 13 automobile accident in Casey County. She had been at University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center in Lexington since the crash on Ky. 70 in front of Ruthie's Diner. Patterson's 1988 Toyota collided with a dump truck driven by Sherman Hatter, 55, of Yosemite. The truck was hauling a bulldozer on a trailer, which jack-knifed. After Patterson's vehicle hit the dump truck, it ran into a Toyota pickup truck driven by Conrad Baldock, 55, of Yosemite.

A deputy from the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after being involved in a wreck on South Main Street. Deputy Gerald Wheeler was taken to St. Joseph Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after his cruiser, which was headed south, struck a dump truck that was attempting to turn left from the southbound lane of Main Street onto John C. Watts Drive. Nicholasville police officer Kevin Grimes said Wheeler was responding to an emergency call around 2 p.m. and had turned on his lights and siren as he attempted to pass traffic in the southbound lane of South Main Street, including an SUV and the dump truck.

LANCASTER — A Rockcastle County man who was injured while doing road construction in Garrard County has filed a lawsuit over the accident. Jeffrey D. Brock of Mount Vernon filed the complaint earlier this month in Garrard Circuit Court naming Cumberland Trucking of Nicholasville and employee Matthew Stinnett as defendants. According to the lawsuit, Brock was operating a blacktop paver on Sugar Creek Road on Sept. 8 when the paver was struck by a dump truck driven by Stinnett and owned by Cumberland Trucking.

Theft of coins, medication reported HARRODSBURG Keith Walker, 47, of 394 Robin St., has reported to Harrodsburg Police Department that someone entered his home just before noon Wednesday and took collectible coins valued at $2,550 and prescription medication. There was no sign of forced entry. Anyone having information about this crime is asked to call the police department at (859) 734-3311 or Mercer County Crime Stoppers at (859) 733-9115. Dump truck strikes utility pole LORETTO - A Springfield driver was injured Thursday when the truck he was driving left Ky. 52 and struck a telephone pole, state police said.

One person was injured Thursday when a state highway dump truck collided with a passenger car at the intersection of U.S. 150 and U.S. 127. Danville police said a 1999 General Motors dump truck registered to the state Transportation Cabinet and driven by Richard T. Caldwell, 45, of Stanford, attempted to turn left from U.S. 127 onto U.S. 150. The truck struck a 2001 Suzuki driven by Bridgett Brown, 34, of Stanford, that was stopped at...

Ky. 627 in Madison County was closed for nearly eight hours Wednesday after a tractor-trailer struck a pickup truck, spilling oil and fuel onto the road and ditchline.A tractor-trailer driven by Bruch Rich, 35, of Barbourville was traveling south on Ky. 627 at 12:30 p.m. when Rich saw a dump truck coming onto the road from the rock quarry. Rich swerved into the northbound lane to avoid hitting the dump truck, and as he swerved back into the southbound lane, he hit a pickup truck, driven by Edwin Carter, 54, of Bowling Green, in the rear, knocking the truck into the ditchline.

STANFORD - Officials say construction vehicles purchased with leftover grant money have the potential to save the Stanford Water Department tens of thousands of dollars every year in contracting costs. Stanford Water Department Manager Ryan Owens said a mini-excavator and dump truck the city acquired in September allow city employees to repair broken water lines and conduct other jobs like adding tie-outs and boring into roads without calling in a third-party contractor. Ryan and three water department employees were using the equipment as recently as Thursday, when they repaired a broken water line on Cut Off Street in downtown Stanford.

CRAB ORCHARD - The volunteer fire department in Crab Orchard will be getting a couple upgrades thanks to approximately $9,200 in spending approved by the city commission. Mayor Billy Shelton said city commissioners approved the purchase of seven new digital radios - five handheld units and two vehicle-mounted units - at the commission meeting Dec. 6. The radio upgrade, which will cost about $5,700, was made necessary by an impending federal mandate from the Federal Communications Commission requiring all agencies to upgrade their radio communications by Jan. 1, 2013.

Charged - Alvin Crowe, 51, of 137 Mimosa Drive, was charged Sunday with fourth-degree assault. Accident - At 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, deputies responded to an injury accident on Interstate 64 in which Susan Parker of 303 Potomac Drive was traveling east on Interstate 64 near the 100 mile marker when a front tire blew on her dump truck. It crossed the median and the westbound lanes before it overturned. Parker was transported to Clark Regional Medical Center with unspecified injuries.

Two Lincoln County men escaped serious injury when a truck flipped over Tuesday afternoon. Boyle Sheriff's Deputy Jody Adams said a Ford dump truck driven by John Naylor, 57, of Hustonville was southbound on Chrisman Lane about 2:30 p.m., approaching the intersection with U.S. 150. When Naylor attempted to move over slightly on the road as another vehicle approached, the right front tire went off the road, the truck spun sideways and then tipped...

A deputy from the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after being involved in a wreck on South Main Street. Deputy Gerald Wheeler was taken to St. Joseph Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after his cruiser, which was headed south, struck a dump truck that was attempting to turn left from the southbound lane of Main Street onto John C. Watts Drive. Nicholasville police officer Kevin Grimes said Wheeler was responding to an emergency call around 2 p.m. and had turned on his lights and siren as he attempted to pass traffic in the southbound lane of South Main Street, including an SUV and the dump truck.

A crew from Winchester Public Works spent part of Monday morning removing a tree that fell victim to the high winds of Saturday's thunderstorm. Removing a tree that was blocking a section of the Winchester Traveling Trail were, from left, top photo, Donald Lyle, operating backhoe; Jerry Brinegar and Estill Perkins. Brinegar pulled a large limb from the tree to be loaded in a waiting dump truck, bottom photo. The Clark County Road Department also was out Monday morning cleaning up trees downed in the county.

A flatbed commercial delivery truck overturned Monday morning on Mackey Pike, spilling drywall supplies on the shoulder and sending a passenger to a hospital with minor injuries. The truck was driven by 32-year-old Travis Peel of Nicholasville, according to Jessamine County sheriff’s deputy Larry Oliver, and was traveling south on Mackey Pike as it approached a sharp left-hand turn at the intersection with Beaumont Road. “He said he’d been having some malfunctions with his brakes earlier this morning and was unable to negotiate this turn here at Beaumont,” Oliver said.

LANCASTER — A Rockcastle County man who was injured while doing road construction in Garrard County has filed a lawsuit over the accident. Jeffrey D. Brock of Mount Vernon filed the complaint earlier this month in Garrard Circuit Court naming Cumberland Trucking of Nicholasville and employee Matthew Stinnett as defendants. According to the lawsuit, Brock was operating a blacktop paver on Sugar Creek Road on Sept. 8 when the paver was struck by a dump truck driven by Stinnett and owned by Cumberland Trucking.

HARRODSBURG — Traffic on U.S. 127 just north of Harrodsburg was still blocked this morning in the wake of a crash in which a dump truck flipped over after getting tangled up in overhead telephone lines. The crash occurred late Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department. “127 has been blocked in both directions at Jackson Pike since just after 11 p.m., so motorists can’t go north of Harrodsburg on 127,” Mercer Deputy Sheriff Tim Gambrel said from his cell phone about 8:30 a.m. today as he helped direct traffic.