Friday, June 27, 2008

Five vehicle pileup on Bypass

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A five-car pile up at the intersection of the Bypass Road and Elizaville Avenue was caused by inattention, according to police.

Flemingsburg Police Chief Randy Sargent said Jared Miller was not paying attention to the traffic light when he was making a left turn from the Bypass onto Elizaville Road. That mistake caused a chain reaction and sent five cars piling into each other.

According to the police report Miller said he “looked up and saw the green light and misjudged the motions of the other vehicles in the left turn lane.”

The driver of a Dodge Ram, Gregory Terrell said he saw the car Miller was driving and noticed that it was moving fast.

According to the report, Terrell and his passenger Terry Boggs, “looked through their rear-view mirror and saw Unit 1 (Miller), coming at them and that he was not slowing down.”

Officer William Thoroughman, who worked the accident, said in his report that Miller hit Terrell, who hit the vehicle driven by Jarrod Monroe, who hit the vehicle driven by Rebecca Glasscock, who hit the vehicle driven by Tyler Story.

Traffic coming from the Morehead direction was re-routed through Arby’s driveway until the wreck was cleared, which took nearly an hour.

Miller was the only person taken to the hospital, according to the report. Sargent said he had minor injuries and that he was tested for alcohol. Thoroughman said Miller submitted to the test and the results are pending.

“With him being at fault and not slowing down, that is why we had him tested,” Sargent said. “We also found alcohol in the car, but it was unopened.”