Authorities say wet, foggy conditions primary factor in fatal crash on Hwy. 92E

All four people involved in a two-vehicle crash Monday morning on Ky. 92E were on their way to work when the accident occurred leaving one driver dead and one of his passengers in critical condition.

Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley pronounced Charles N. McIntosh, 20, of Williamsburg, dead at the scene about 8:20 a.m.
McIntosh was not wearing a seatbelt, but his airbag did deploy. He died instantly, Croley said.

Kentucky State Police Accident Reconstructionist Don Trosper determined that the accident happened about 7:50 a.m. on Ky. 92 about one mile east of the Highway 904 bridge.

Cindy A. Tackett, 23, of Rockholds, was traveling east on Ky. 92 when she lost control of her 2008 Honda Civic in a curve, crossed the centerline and struck McIntosh’s westbound 1999 Honda Civic head-on, according to a KSP press release.

Croley said that the impact was primarily on the driver’s side of the McIntosh vehicle.

"Weather was definitely a contributing factor. The roadway surface was wet and slick. It was very foggy," Croley noted. "Meteorological conditions definitely played a role in it."

McIntosh’s passengers, Jeremy D. Llewellyn, 25, and Dalton L. Ramey, 21, both of Williamsburg, were also not wearing their seatbelts, according to the release.

Both were transported to Jellico Community Hospital for treatment of their injuries.

Ramey was later transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition late Tuesday morning.

Tackett, who was wearing a seatbelt, was transported to Saint Joseph London Hospital where she was treated for her injuries.

Tackett and Llewellyn’s conditions are unknown.

Tackett works at the Whitley County Detention Center. McIntosh and his two passengers worked at Fulton Heating and Air and were only about five miles away from work when the crash took place, Croley said.

Croley said that no autopsy was ordered, but a routine toxicology test will be performed.

KSP Trooper Lloyd Cochran, Public Affairs Officer at the London post, said that neither drug nor alcohol involvement is suspected.

No charges have been filed so far in connection with the crash, which remains under investigation, Cochran said.

Members of the Patterson Creek Volunteer Fire Department and Williamsburg Fire and Rescue had to extricate McIntosh’s body from the vehicle.

Whitley County Sheriff’s Sgt. Todd Shelley, Whitley County EMS, Bell County EMS, Bolton’s Towing and Smith Towing also assisted at the scene.

Croley said the wreck happened near the exact location where someone had placed a cross on the side of the road to commemorate another fatal crash there.

both died instantly from head and chest injuries they suffered in a two-vehicle crash.

Miller apparently lost control of his 1992 Oldsmobile Achieva that was heading west on the road in a curve on wet pavement. He went across the centerline and struck another vehicle.

"It’s very tragic," Croley said. "It is a bad place in the road. There is a guardrail there now. It is two high points that go into a dip. Both of these wrecks were in the dip."

Trosper was also the accident reconstructionist who investigated the 2003 accident.