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- 2 Drivers Die In Scott Crash
Both Thrown Out As Vehicles Collide
Georgetown, Ky., Nov. 6 (Special) – Two men were killed instantly about 12:30 o’clock this morning on parker’s Curve, 14 miles north of here, on U.S. 25, when a car skidded on the highway and veered into the path of a trailer truck.
The truck driver, Lyman T. Ponder, 43, of Covington, was thrown from the cab of his truck and under the trailer. His body was pinned for an hour and a half before being removed by State Police and other truck drivers.
Official said the driver of the car. Welby Clayton Jones, 23, of Columbia, also was thrown out of his vehicle.
The cab of the trailer broke loose and landed about 10 feet off the highway against some trees. The trailer turned over and fell on Ponder as he was thrown from the cab.
Jones’ car was headed north but flipped around and came to a rest heading south against some trees about eight feet off the highway.
Parker’s Curve has been the scene of numerous accidents during the past several years, and one official today said that the highway is banked wrong. “When a vehicle is making the curve,” Sheriff Earl Morrison said, “the vehicle leans toward the center of the highway instead of leaning toward the right side. When the highway is the least bit wet, this portion of the highway is very dangerous.
It was first reported that Ponder’s truck jack-knifed, but investigating officers said the the truck and automobile hit head-on.
Another early report was that one person had been killed and another injured and that a passing motorist had picked up one of the drivers and taken him to a hospital. Later, however, Ponder’s body was found under the trailer.
Traffic on the highway was blocked about two miles in each direction for nearly three hours before the trailer was removed from across the highway.
Ponder was a native of Rockcastle County, but had been residing in Covington. His survivors include his wife; two children, Ted and June Ponder; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ponder, Rockcastle County, and a brother, William W. Ponder, Covington.
His boyd was removed to Johnson’s Funeral Home here and later sent to the Cox Funeral Home at Mt. Vernon.
Jones is survived by his father, Lewis Jones, Columbia Route 2. His body was sent to a funeral home at Columbia.
Coroner R.C. Johnson said that both victims suffered fractured skulls and broken necks in addition to numerous other injuries.
The accident was investigated by State Troopers Ray Judy of Frankfort and dale Fortner of Shelbyville.
The Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky. Tuesday, 7 November 1961.
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