{"id":49370,"date":"2025-07-21T13:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=49370"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:04:31","slug":"p7-07-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p7-07-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Investigate Fatal Collision in Madison County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>RICHMOND, Ky.<\/strong> <strong>(July 21, 2025)<\/strong> \u2013 The Kentucky State Police, Richmond Post, was contacted just before 5:30 p.m., Sunday, July 20, 2025, in reference to a multi vehicle collision on I-75 near the 83 mile marker northbound in Madison County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial investigation indicates traffic on I-75 was heavily congested at the time of the incident. An International commercial motor vehicle (CMV), operated by David Turner, failed to slow down and struck the rear of a 2018 Chevrolet Silverado operated by Rico Brown. The impact caused the commercial motor vehicle (CMV) to then strike a guardrail and collide with a 2024 Ford F-350 pulling a recreational vehicle, operated by Steven Wohlscheid. As a result of the initial collision, the Chevrolet Silverado was pushed forward and struck the rear of a 2021 Freightliner (CMV) operated by Justin Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the collision, Rico Brown, 33, of Berea, Kentucky, who was operating the Chevrolet Silverado, was transported to the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A juvenile passenger in the vehicle was pronounced deceased at the scene by Madison County Coroner Jimmy Cornelison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trooper Douglas Holt is conducting the ongoing collision investigation. He was assisted on scene by Kentucky State Police personnel, Madison County EMS, Madison County Fire Department, Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, and Madison County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Ky. (July 21, 2025) \u2013 The Kentucky State Police, Richmond Post, was contacted just before 5:30 p.m., Sunday, July 20, 2025, in reference to a multi vehicle collision on I-75 near the 83 mile marker northbound in Madison County. The initial investigation indicates traffic on I-75 was heavily congested at the time of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":39589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,60],"tags":[159,105],"class_list":["post-49370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-7","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-7"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-Fatal-Collision-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49371,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370\/revisions\/49371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}