Thursday afternoon crash claims life of Williamsburg teenager

A single vehicle crash in Williamsburg early Thursday afternoon claimed one young man’s life and sent two more to the hospital.
The accident happened about 12:20 p.m. on Main Street between Ky. 204 and Ky. 92W.
Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley pronounced Nathaniel Adam Pilant, 18, of Williamsburg, dead at 12:30 p.m. He died as a result of injuries he sustained in the accident.
The car that Pilant was driving went over a 10 to 15 foot embankment, and struck a tree trapping him and another passenger inside.
Emergency crews from Williamsburg Fire Department extricated one seriously injured passenger from the vehicle.
An emergency helicopter landed near Hal Rogers Family Entertainment Center, and apparently flew the extricated young man to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
His condition is unknown except that he suffered serious injuries in the accident, and was alive when he was flown out.
A second passenger was involved in the crash, and suffered less serious injuries. He didn’t have to be extricated from the vehicle.
Emergency crews had to extricate Pilant from the vehicle.
Williamsburg police and Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies are attempting to reconstruct the accident in an attempt to determine the cause of the wreck.
Wet road conditions likely played a role in the crash.
The accident had the roadway tied up for over two hours.
Whitley County EMS and the Whitley County Coroner’s Office assisted at the scene.