{"id":56307,"date":"2026-02-24T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=56307"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:08:44","slug":"p2-2-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p2-2-24-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Post 2 Investigates Fatal Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MADISONVILLE, Ky.<\/strong> <strong>(February 24, 2026)<\/strong> \u2013Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 was contacted by Hopkins County Dispatch on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at approximately 5:30 AM CT and requested to investigate a fatal collision involving a vehicle versus pedestrian near the 4400 block of Charleston Road, Dawson Springs, Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary Investigation indicates that a pickup truck traveling north bound on Charleston Road entered a second lane in attempt to pass another north bound vehicle. The north bound pickup truck struck a south bound bicycle rider identified as David Baggott, 49 years old of Dawson Springs, Kentucky who was pronounced deceased by the Hopkins County Coroner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collision remains under investigation by Detective Jacob Stephens U\/1216 of the Kentucky State Police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISONVILLE, Ky. (February 24, 2026) \u2013Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 was contacted by Hopkins County Dispatch on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at approximately 5:30 AM CT and requested to investigate a fatal collision involving a vehicle versus pedestrian near the 4400 block of Charleston Road, Dawson Springs, Kentucky. Preliminary Investigation indicates that a pickup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,54],"tags":[159,77],"class_list":["post-56307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-2","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-2"],"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\/56307","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56308,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56307\/revisions\/56308"}],"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=56307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}