Crashes reported on icy roads
Published 4:54 pm Sunday, January 5, 2025
- A Bowling Green Public Works de-icing truck drives up State Street in Bowling Green on Sunday after a winter storm system blew across the state, bringing with it below-freezing temperatures, ice and snowfall.
The winter weather system that began rolling into the area Sunday morning left a thin layer of ice on many roads, creating conditions for accidents.
The Warren County Sheriff’s Office posted on its social media accounts that it responded to several accidents Sunday morning throughout the county.
The post from the WCSO urged people to stay off the roads unless it was necessary to drive.
This was a message echoed by other agencies in the area as they contended with accidents on icy, slick roads.
“When the weather’s like this, collisions do increase and people lose control of their vehicles due to the slippery surface,” said Kentucky State Police Trooper Katan Parker, KSP Post 3 spokesman.
Parker said that KSP had responded to multiple accidents on Interstate 65 and Interstate 165.
A couple of accidents involved injuries, but none so far have been life-threatening, Parker said.
The Simpson County Office of Emergency Management reported in a social media post that multiple accidents had occurred in that county, while Glasgow/Barren County Emergency Management said that an accident had taken place on the Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Parkway, and that several vehicles had been sliding off roadways in the county Sunday morning.
The Bowling Green Police Department said in a post on their social media accounts that there were fewer vehicle on the roads Sunday morning than normally seen.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 3 said in a news release Saturday night that highway crews began reporting for duty late that night, preparing to treat roads as needed.
Each county in the 10-county district was fully stocked on salt and other road treatment agents, with District 3 having about 20,000 tons of salt on hand, along with 68 transportation cabinet snow plows and 16 contract trucks, the cabinet said.
A winter weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service remains in effect until 6 p.m. Monday, with the NWS forecasting that, after the first wave of wintry precipitation transitions to rain Sunday afternoon, a second wave of winter weather would move into the region Monday morning.
