Sparta, Kentucky (WXIX) – Two medical helicopters responded to the crash, three people were taken to hospital, and Interstate 71 in northern Kentucky was closed for several hours overnight, according to Gallatin County EMS it was done.
The first crash involved a vehicle one mile north of the Kentucky Speedway exit in Sparta around 10 p.m. Monday.
The driver, who was alone in the car, was airlifted to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, EMS told FOX19 NOW.
A second crash occurred shortly after at NB I-71 at the Kentucky Speedway exit.
EMS said it involved four vehicles and injured two people.
One of them was seriously injured and needed a second medical helicopter to take him to a UC hospital in Cincinnati.
A second person injured in the four-car collision was taken by ambulance to the same hospital, an EMS official told FOX19 NOW.
The highway was closed for over 4 hours overnight.
Kentucky State Police are investigating and have not released any details overnight.
Police reopened the highway around 2:30 a.m., but drivers told FOX 19 NOW that several truckers had fallen asleep in a cicada parked on the highway because the highway had been closed for so long. said to have fallen into
KSP’s Campbellsburg Post reports that the troopers have returned and that the truck driver has woken up and determined that the highway is open.
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