{"id":56375,"date":"2026-02-26T13:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=56375"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:06:38","slug":"p9-2-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p9-2-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Investigates Single Vehicle Fatal Collision in\u00a0Pike County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ASHCAMP<\/strong><strong>, Ky.<\/strong>&nbsp;(February 26, 2026) &#8211; Kentucky State Police Post 9, Pikeville, was notified of a single-vehicle collision that occurred at approximately 3:47 p.m. on February 25, 2026. The incident took place on Kentucky Route 197 in the Ashcamp community of Pike County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial investigation determined that Matthew Corbett was operating a white 2020 Ford Transit ambulance owned by Lifeguard Ambulance Service when the vehicle exited the roadway and overturned. Douglas Jones was a passenger in the vehicle. Mr. Jones was transported to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collision remains under investigation by Accident Reconstructionist Trooper Terry Mounts. Trooper Mounts was assisted at the scene by Post 9 personnel, the\u00a0Sycamore Volunteer Fire Department, and Lifeguard Ambulance Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHCAMP, Ky.&nbsp;(February 26, 2026) &#8211; Kentucky State Police Post 9, Pikeville, was notified of a single-vehicle collision that occurred at approximately 3:47 p.m. on February 25, 2026. The incident took place on Kentucky Route 197 in the Ashcamp community of Pike County. The initial investigation determined that Matthew Corbett was operating a white 2020 Ford [&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":[33,62],"tags":[159,243],"class_list":["post-56375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-9","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-9"],"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\/56375","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=56375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56414,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions\/56414"}],"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=56375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}