MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) A GoFundMe account has been set up by friends of the woman killed early Monday being a Good Samaritan to others in a traffic accident.MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – A 38-year-old Pine Ridge woman was killed in a freak accident early Monday morning when she stopped to help an accident victim and struck by another car.
The victim was identified as 38-year-old Shana Dawn Cunningham-Terrill, of Pine Ridge, according to Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn. She died at 4:42 a.m., Ginn said, of blunt force trauma.
She was one of several people who had stopped to help at the accident scene at the 108 mile marker and was struck along with some other people by a car that was trying to dodge the initial accident.UPDATE (08/03/20 7:20 a.m.) – Multiple injuries have been reported by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, following an early morning wreck on Interstate 64 that shutdown the road for several hours.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials reported a crash early Monday morning involving multiple passenger cars near mile market 108 between Winchester and Mount Sterling.
According to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, an investigation is underway following an initial single vehicle collision. The sheriff’s office reports the driver of a vehicle exited the road for unknown reasons, hit an embankment before coming to a stop across two eastbound lanes. The driver was found outside of the vehicle. The sheriff’s office reports a good samaritan stopped to render aid in the median when another vehicle swerved to miss the disabled vehicle and hit both individuals.
The conditions of the two pedestrians are not known at this time, although the sheriff’s office reports there are other people injured as well.
Several different agencies responded to the scene, according to KYTC.
Interstate 64 reopened just after 7 a.m. Monday, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
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