Police chase ends in crash that injures multiple people near Anderson County High School
A police chase that began in Mercer County ended in a crash in Anderson County that left five people injured late Friday.
Kentucky State Police said the Harrodsburg Police Department initiated the pursuit on U.S. 127 at 10:54 p.m. David Henderson, 30, of Hawesville in Hancock County, was driving the car police were trying to stop, and Rachel Webb, 27, of Reynolds Station in Ohio County, was a passenger, state police said. They did not provide any information about why police were trying to stop the car.
State police said the pursuit ended when Henderson’s 2013 Chrysler 200 hit a 2005 Nissan Altima carrying three people at the intersection of U.S. 127 and U.S. 62 in Anderson County.
State police did not identify the three occupants of the Altima. They said one female from that vehicle was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, where she was in critical condition Saturday.
Anderson County Emergency Management Director Bart Powell said late Friday that four other people involved in the wreck had “minor to serious” injuries. State police said Webb was taken to UK with minor injuries.
State police said Henderson was arrested on a Grayson County warrant for failure to appear. Harrodsburg police filed a number of other charges against him, including driving under the influence, first offense, with aggravated circumstance; first-degree wanton endangerment; first-degree fleeing or evading police; reckless driving and speeding 26 mph over the limit.
Henderson was taken to the Boyle County Detention Center.
Court records show that Henderson failed to appear in court in Grayson County to enter a plea in a drug trafficking case on July 16. The warrant for his arrest was issued after that.
The crash site is near Anderson County High School, where a football game had concluded less than an hour before the collision.
Witnesses said the crash happened just before 11 p.m.
Harrodsburg and Lawrenceburg police were on the scene, as well as Kentucky State Police, Mercer County and Anderson County sheriffs and Lawrenceburg Fire and Rescue.
This story was originally published September 7, 2019 at 12:04 AM.