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The driver of a tractor-trailer died Monday following a wreck involving four vehicles on Interstate 75 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky State Police said.
The driver of the Somerset Food Service tractor-trailer has been identified as Tommy Kelley, 48, of London.
Kelley who received fatal injuries in the traffic crash was pronounced dead at the scene by the Rockcastle County Coroner’s Office.
Northbound lanes were closed for roughly seven hours with traffic being diverted off the highway between mile markers 62 and 76. I -75 northbound is now open to traffic.
About 12:45 a.m., state police responded to the wreck at the 68-mile marker of I-75, north of Mount Vernon.
The tractor-trailer struck a Ford pick-up truck in the rear, overturned and slid into a concrete bridge pillar, state police said.
Accident reconstructionists determined that a Chevrolet passenger car going southbound on I-75 had stopped in the southbound shoulder to avoid a Chevrolet van. The van then crossed the median into the northbound lanes and stopped.
The tractor-trailer and Ford pick-up truck were in northbound traffic, which was attempting to avoid the van. No one in the van and passenger car were injured. A passenger in the tractor-trailer and the driver of the pick-up truck were taken to area hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately available.
