Kentucky woman dies at UK hospital after car, dump truck crash. Police investigating
Kentucky State Police are investigating after a crash killed an Adair County woman in her 50s Thursday, according to the Fayette County coroner’s office.
Kathleen Goode, 57, was turning on to West Ky. 70 from Gum Lick Road near Clementsville just before 11 a.m. when she pulled into the path of a dump truck, according to KSP. Darrel Beachy, the 23-year-old driver of the dump truck, tried to swerve to avoid the collision, but hit Goode’s vehicle on the driver’s side, police said.
Goode was flown to the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital in Lexington where she died a few hours after the crash, according to the coroner’s office.
The dump truck ran off the road and overturned in a creek, police said. Beachy wasn’t wearing his seat belt, but he wasn’t injured, police said.
KSP Post 15 in Columbia is in charge of the investigation, according to the coroner’s office.
This story was originally published July 17, 2020 at 7:17 AM.