{"id":50303,"date":"2025-08-22T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=50303"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:05:14","slug":"cve-8-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/cve-8-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Investigates Fatal Collision in Mead County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>GUSTON, Ky.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(August 21, 2025)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 The Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 4 and the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division responded to a two-vehicle collision in Meade County Thursday morning that resulted in a fatality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 21, 2025, around 10:32 a.m. EDT, KSP Post 4 received a call from Meade Co. Dispatch to assist with the investigation of a fatal collision near the 14000 block of US 60 involving a semi-tractor trailer and passenger truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preliminary investigation revealed that a tractor-trailer, operated by Marshall Morgan, 77, of Guston, was traveling eastbound on US60 when, for unknown reasons, he crossed the center line and struck a Ford F-150, operated by Glenda Ricketts, 74, of Shepherdsville.&nbsp; A passenger in the pickup truck, Jerry Ricketts, 80, also of Shepherdsville, was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Meade County Coroner&#8217;s Office. Both Glenda Ricketts and Morgan were transported to University of Louisville Hospital with life-threatening injuries. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KSP was assisted on scene by the Irvington Police Department, Breckinridge County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Meade County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Breckinridge County EMS, Meade County EMS, Irvington Fire Dept, Ekron Fire Depot, Flaherty Fire Department, Fort Knox Fire Department and the Meade County Coroner&#8217;s Office. The investigation remains ongoing by reconstructionist Tpr. Tyler Lynch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUSTON, Ky.&nbsp;(August 21, 2025)&nbsp;\u2013 The Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 4 and the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division responded to a two-vehicle collision in Meade County Thursday morning that resulted in a fatality. On August 21, 2025, around 10:32 a.m. EDT, KSP Post 4 received a call from Meade Co. Dispatch to assist with the investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":39589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,33,57],"tags":[1264,511,159,93],"class_list":["post-50303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cve","category-ksp-news","category-post-4","tag-commercial-vehicle","tag-cve","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-4"],"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\/50303","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50304,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50303\/revisions\/50304"}],"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=50303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}