Car crash causes downed power line on Thornton Road KY, Letcher County KY
TrafficA car crashed on Thornton Road in Pike County, Kentucky. The crash caused a power line to fall across a guardrail. Kentucky State Police and the fire department responded to the scene. Power company crews were on the way to fix the downed line. The road was expected to be closed for some time due to the hazard.
Audio|Source: East Kentucky Amateur Radio SkyWarn
03:48
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, I was in bed and it woke me up and I thought, well, was that thunder? And then I looked out the window and I seen headlight shining up into the trees across the road from me.
00:13
I thought, uh-oh, a car has crashed, so I tried to make an emergency call and I couldn't get no signal or anything, so I came and got on the repeater.
00:23
that I had emergency traffic, and that fell her up in, I believe he was in (name withheld).
00:27
Got a hold of some people for me, so.
00:30
Ham Radio kind of saved the day, but OnStar did his job, too.
00:34
So I guess we got to share the glory with OnStar, too.
00:37
Hey, you did what you're supposed to do, and that's good.
00:40
That fellow, I think, you said he was at (name withheld), which is over in Pike County.
00:43
Yeah, but I sure do appreciate him helping out, and I'm praying for the people involved and nobody's heard.
00:50
I haven't seen an ambulance show up, so I don't think anybody's injured.
00:53
Kentucky State Police are on the scene here right now, and I think there's a fire truck on the scene also, and I heard them saying don't touch the guardrail, so evidently there's a power line down across the guardrail, I reckon.
01:07
Yeah, Kentucky Power trucks will be showing up here shortly.
01:10
He'll come out when the state police calls them.
01:12
Yeah, copy that.
01:14
They'll have a job on their hands there because I'm, I'm, the line that feeds into my house, that power pole is still up.
01:21
But there's one that's right almost falling into the creek and I think it might have fell into the creek when when the car come around there.
01:28
That road is so undercut from the creek and they keep on fixing parts of Thornton Road, but they don't fix this area down here that's so bad, so maybe they'll get somebody out to fix that finally.
01:40
State-maintained road or county?
01:42
Nobody wants to slam responsibility and don't want to spend money.
01:45
Yeah, according to the Magistrate, it's a state-maintained road.
01:48
It's four numbers, (number withheld).
01:50
She said the four-number roads are maintained by the state.
01:53
Yeah, my call sign words, K-R-4 G-Q-Z.
02:01
My name's (name withheld).
02:02
I live in (name withheld), Kentucky, and Pike County.
02:04
All right, (name withheld), thank you very much for helping out.
02:07
I'm sure glad somebody was able to come back to me there.
02:10
I'm just praying everybody's okay.
02:11
TN4, yeah,
02:12
I put Ledger County in my scanner app here and listening to them in Rout to you.
02:17
Down here right now, I think there's two KSP cars, and I saw something come up with Greg Nights on it, so that was probably from May King Fire Department.
02:27
That's the Fire Department that handles us, May King Volunteer Fire Department.
02:31
Yeah, they paged them that off of, yeah.
02:34
I heard them say it's going to be close for a while because there are fire lines down in the road and everything.
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Thornton Rd, Kentucky
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