2 people dead after car overturns in Eastern Kentucky, state police say
Two people died after a car ran off the road and overturned in Bell County Sunday, according to Kentucky State Police.
The crash occurred just before 9 a.m. in Arjay, state police said. It happened on Kentucky Route 66 and involved one car. The driver, 48-year-old Michael Collett, died on scene. A passenger, 22-year-old Charles Upton, also died on scene.
The two were traveling East in a KIA passenger car and “veered off the roadway into a ditch line,” state police said in a news release. The KIA overturned after hitting the ditch line and both victims were ejected from the car.
Both victims were Arjay residents, state police said. A Bell County deputy coroner declared them dead on scene.
A state police trooper was investigating the crash, officials said.