Parents die, children seriously hurt in crash in Northern Kentucky, police say
A mother and father were killed and their two children seriously injured Thursday morning after their pickup truck collided with a construction truck on Interstate 75 in Northern Kentucky, police said.
The collision happened about 12 a.m., Erlanger police said. The crash killed the pickup truck’s driver, 29-year-old Andrew McIntyre and passenger 32-year-old Ratasha McIntyre, who was in the front passenger seat. Both were Carrollton residents, police said.
A 1-year-old child who wasn’t properly restrained in a car seat was found with life-threatening injuries, police said. A 7-year-old had “serious physical injuries,” police said. Both were taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Both children were going to be in and out of surgeries Thursday, according to Charlie Loudermilk, an officer with the Erlanger Police Department. Police weren’t sure of how many surgeries they would go through. The 1-year-old’s condition was critical Thursday morning and officers didn’t know if his condition had improved by the afternoon, Loudermilk said.
The collision happened between the exits to Buttermilk Pike and Interstate 275, police said. Police were alerted to the pickup truck around midnight when a caller told Kenton County dispatch a white pickup truck was “all over the roadway,” police said. A short time later, the caller told dispatch that the pickup truck hit the construction truck, police said.
Mark Clapper, a 43-year-old Ohio resident, was the only person in the construction truck, police said. He had minor injuries and was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital. He’s since been released, police said.
Erlanger police were working with Kenton County authorities to investigate the collision. The road was shut down for several hours overnight.
This story was originally published December 10, 2020 at 7:13 AM.