Tuesday, July 04, 2000
Holiday crashes kill six
By Terry Flynn
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Rescue helicopter takes driver to the hospital, where he died.
(Patrick Reddy photo)
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Five people in Northern Kentucky and one person in Cincinnati have been killed so far in vehicle accidents over the July Fourth weekend.
Northern Kentucky accounted for five of the 12 people who were killed in Kentucky in six highway crashes through Monday afternoon, including three people who died in a Maysville crash and a man who died in a wreck near Falmouth.
In Cincinnati, police reported a Winton Place man was killed Monday morning after he was thrown from his car when it flipped over and went over an embankment at the Norwood Lateral and Reading Road, Bond Hill.
The man, identified as Marcus Seay, 20, died at University Hospital shortly after the accident.
When the car, which was traveling on the Norwood
Lateral, went over the embankment it hit another vehicle that was stopped at a traffic light on Reading Road, police said. The driver of that car, Carl Bimel, 81, of Walnut Hills, was not injured.
A Dayton, Ohio, man died Monday evening after his car went out of control on northbound Interstate 75 near the Dixie Highway overpass in Fort Mitchell.
Police said Lawrence C. Albery, 34, had been slumped over the wheel of his car shortly before 6 p.m., but when police responded he handed over his driver's license, then sped away. Soon after, his car went out of control, slid off the highway and down an embankment and flipped several times, ejecting Mr. Albery. The car then crossed an on-ramp, landed in a ditch and caught fire.
Traffic on I-75 northbound was halted for more than an hour and was slow moving for several hours.
Mr. Albery was taken by helicopter to University Hospital, where he died.
The fatality rate in Kentucky approached the record levels of 1991 and 1996, when 17 people were killed during the same holiday period, according to Kentucky State Police reports Monday, a deadly start to an unusually long July Fourth holiday period.
Independence Day was on Thursday in each of those years. “Two long, long holidays,” Lt. Kevin Payne, the agency's headquarters spokesman, said.
In the worst single Kentucky wreck, four vehicles collided on U.S. 68 at Maysville Sunday.
The victims included James and Carol Puckett of Mount Orab, Ohio, and Frank Baker Jr. of Maysville.
Police said Mr. Baker apparently sideswiped one car on U.S. 68, then struck the Puckett car head-on before continuing to an intersection and striking a pickup truck.
Five other people were injured, none seriously. Wreckage was scattered for hundreds of feet through a construction zone.
In Pendleton County, Charles L. Sebastian, 31, of Butler, was killed Saturday when his vehicle ran off U.S. 27 and rolled over. Mr. Sebastian, not wearing a seat belt, was ejected. Alcohol was suspected as a factor, according to the police report.
The first reported fatality of the holiday period in Kentucky was in Pike County, where a woman was killed when a vehicle ran off U.S. 460 at Shelbiana, struck an embankment and overturned. State police identified the victim as Hazel Gibson, 77.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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