Two Ky. Civilians Killed in Crash with Ambulance

Police are unsure why a car crossed the center line Monday on the Mountain Parkway and collided with an ambulance in a crash that killed two people.

A man and woman in the 2001 Nissan Maxima died at the scene, Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue Jr. said.

The bodies of both victims were taken Tuesday to the state medical examiner's office in Frankfort for autopsy.

The driver and an attendant in the Owsley County ambulance were injured in the crash but are expected to survive, Perdue said. No patients were on board.

The wreck happened about 2:30 p.m. Monday near the 8-mile marker on the Mountain Parkway in Clark County. The ambulance driver was taken to Clark Regional Medical Center in Winchester; the attendant was flown to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital.

According to authorities, the Nissan was traveling west when it crossed the center line, colliding head-on with the ambulance.

Perdue said one of the bodies had to be cut out of the wrecked car.

He said accident reconstruction experts were working on their accident report Tuesday morning.

Jim Warren: (859) 231-3255