Four killed in Monroe collision with tractor

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, October 3, 2006

TOMPKINSVILLE (AP) – Four people were killed in southcentral Kentucky when the car they were riding in was hit by an oncoming vehicle after a collision with a farm tractor.

Grover Evans, 76, of Tompkinsville was driving southbound on Kentucky 163 in Monroe County Monday night when he struck a farm tractor from behind, state police said. The car collided with a farm implement that was being pulled by the tractor.

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The collision caused the car, a 1998 Ford Contour, to roll onto its side and into the northbound lane, where it was struck by an oncoming truck.

The crash killed Evans, Larry Hawkins, 53, and Dimple Hawkins, 64, of Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, and Robert Calvin, 83, of Tompkinsville. The Monroe County coroner’s office pronounced all four of the passengers dead at the scene, which was seven miles north of Tompkinsville.

The driver of the tractor, 45-year-old Druie Wood, of Tompkinsville, was not hurt, state police said.

Cory Wheeler, 16, the driver of the truck that hit Evans’ car, was treated and released from Monroe County Hospital.