THREE VEHICLE ACCIDENT SENDS TWO TO AREA HOSPITAL

AT 0713 THIS MORNING MCCRACKEN CO. DEPUTIES WERE DISPATCHED TO OLD NORTH FRIENDSHIP RD. AND MARYLAND ST. IN REFERENCE TO A VEHICLE ACCIDENT. A 1984 CHEVROLET CORVETTE DRIVEN BY 65 YEAR OLD ROBERT HERNDON AND HIS PASSENGER 12 YEAR OLD CASSIDY HERNDON WERE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS NORTH FRIENDSHIP FROM MARYLAND ST. MR. HERNDON THOUGHT THE ROAD WAS CLEAR AND STATED PULLING ACROSS THE ROAD AND DID NOT SEE A 2002 MITS. DRIVEN BY 16 YEAR OLD CHELSEA CATHEY. MS. CATHEY COULD NOT STOP IN TIME TO AVOID MR. HERNDON'S VEHICLE. A THIRD VEHICLE A 2001 GMC YUKON DRIVEN BY CYNTHIA WILLIAMS WAS STOPPED AT THE STOP SIGN AT MARYLAND STREET WAS STRUCK IN TE FRONT BUMPER BY VEHICLE DRIVEN BY MS. CATHY. MR. HERNDON WAS TRANSPORTED TO LOURDES FOR MINOR INJURIES TO HIS HEAD AND MS. CATHEY WAS TRANSPORTED TO LOURDES FOR POSSIBLE INJURIES TO HER NECK.. THE PASSENGER IN MR. HERNDON'S VEHICLE AND MS. WILLIAMS WERE NOT INJURED.

MERCY REGIONAL AND LONE OAK FIRE DEPT. ASSISTED AT THE SCENE.

Thanks,

Dep. Malcolm Couch

McCracken Co. Sheriff's Department