Somerset — A Pulaski County man died early yesterday after a two-vehicle crash occurred north of Somerset.
The accident occurred at approximately 7:30 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Ky. 461 and Tommy Road — roughly 10 miles east of Somerset.
Emergency personnel were called to the scene of the accident at 7:34 a.m., and once there, an initial investigation revealed that James Forrest Cooper, 61, of Woodland Drive, Somerset, was killed in the two-vehicle collision.
The accident occurred when Joseph A. Hughes, 18, of Ky. 461, driving a 1995 GMC pickup truck southbound on Ky. 461, collided head-on with Cooper, who was operating a 1997 Mercury northbound on Ky. 461.
Lt. Philip Cross with the sheriff’s department said Hughes was on his way to school and Cooper was on his way out of town for a meeting when the accident occurred.
Cooper was pronounced dead at the scene by the Pulaski County Coroner’s Office.
Hughes was treated at the scene and transported to Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital by Somerset-Pulaski County EMS.
LCRH spokesperson Susan Ramsey Wilson said Hughes was treated in the hospital’s ER but not admitted.
Ky. 461 remained completely closed for approximately three hours while members of the Accident Reconstruction Unit investigated the crash. Cross said one lane of the road remained closed for around two hours while investigators reconstructed the crash.
The area was experiencing heavy rain at the time of the accident, but when asked whether the inclement weather had anything to do with the accident, Cross could only say investigators were looking into that factor.
Cross emphasized that the crash remains under invest-igation.
Sheriff’s deputies were assisted at the scene by the Shopville Fire Department, the Mt. Victory Fire Department, the Somerset-Pulaski County Rescue Squad, the Pulaski County Public Safety Director and the Department of Transportation SAFE Patrol.
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