STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A FATAL COLLISION INVOLVING A KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET CONTRACT WORKER SERVING AS A FLAGGER IN A
WORK ZONE IN LARUE COUNTY…..
REPORTEDLY…..74 YEAR OLD HENRY JAMES OF LOUISVILLE WAS OPERATING A TWO-THOUSAND G-M-C SAVANA…..WHEN HE ENTERED A PORTION OF OLD
ELIZABETHTOWN ROAD THAT HAD BEEN REDUCEDTO ONE LANE DUE TO ROUTINE MAINTENANCE…..AND FAILED TO NOTICE 22 YEAR OLD BLAKE BARNES OF
ELIZABETH’TOWN WHO WAS FLAGGING TRAFFIC….WHEN HE STRUCK BARNES….. WHO WAS PRONOUNCED DECEASED AT THE SCENE……