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Local and Area News HeadlinesBy: Tom Redmon
Sep 3rd, 2010 more
A NELSON COUNTY WOMAN HAS DIED FROM INJURIES SHE RECEIVED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION LAST WEEK IN BULLITT COUNTY.....50 YEAR OLD NANCY SAUNDERS OF COX'S CREEK PASSED AWAY THURSDAY NIGHT AT UNIVERSITY HOSPTAL IN LOUISVILLE WHERE SHE HAD BEEN SINCE THE ACCIDENT ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25TH......SAUNDERS' CAR WAS STRUCK BY A VAN DRIVEN BY 55 YEAR OLD RENA SALLENGS OF BARDSTOWN WHO WAS ALSO TAKEN TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND IS LISTED IN SERIOUS CONDITION.....STATE POLICE SAY SALLENGS WAS HEADED NORTHBOUND ON KY 245 WHEN NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO JIM BEAM DISTILLERY SHE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND INTO THE PAITH OF SAUNDERS CAR...... BOTH WERE TRAPPED INSIDE THEIR VEHICLES UNTIL BEING FREED BY THE SOUTHEAST BULLITT COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT.....
A 17 YEAR OLD MARION COUNTY TEEN WAS SLIGHTLY INJURED IN A SINGLE VEHICLE TRAFFIC CRASH AT AROUND 3:30 THURSDAY AFTERNOON.....STATE POLICE SAY ADAM HALLMARK WAS TRAVELING WEST ON US 68 WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE TWO MILES WEST OF GRAVEL SWITCH, RAN OFF THE HIGHWAY AND STRUCK A BARN......HALLMARK WAS TAKEN TO SPRINGVIEW HOSPITAL BY MARION COUNTY EMS, TREATED AND RELEASED.....
A SMALL WOODEN SHED AT 309 PIPER DRIVE IN BARDSTOWN WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE EARLY THURSDAY MORNING....THE BARDSTOWN- NELSON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS DISPATCHED TO THE SCENE A FEW MINUTES AFTER 1:30.....THE SHED WAS LOCATED BEHIND A MOBILE HOME AND THE OWNER SAID NOTHING OF VALUE WAS INSIDE THE BUILDING....THE BARDSTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT IS LOOKING INTO THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.....
THE BARDSTOWN-NELSON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS SENT ON THREE RUNS THURSDAY NIGHT.....ONE CALL WAS TO BLUEGRASS PARKWAY AT ABOUT 10:40....EARLIER FIRE UNITS WERE CALLED TO 162 BARBERRY LANE AND KENTUCKY HOME SQUARE....BOTH OF THOSE RUNS WERE MADE SHORTLY BEFORE 8 PM....