{"id":57720,"date":"2026-04-07T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=57720"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:20:23","slug":"p11-4-6-2026-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p11-4-6-2026-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Post 11 London Investigates Fatal Collision in Whitley County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CORBIN, Ky. (April 6, 2026) \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>The&nbsp;Kentucky State Police Post 11 in London is investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Monday, April 6, 2026, at approximately 3:00 p.m.&nbsp;EDT&nbsp;on the Cumberland Falls Highway near the intersection of Ward Cemetery Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preliminary investigation indicates that a 2017 Ram pickup&nbsp;truck, operated by John P. Canada-Love, 38, of Corbin, Ky., was traveling north on Cumberland Falls Highway. Mr. Canada-Love approached a 2017 silver Honda HR-V, operated by Jennifer Kirk, 42, of Berea, Ky., and occupied by another passenger, who was also traveling north on Cumberland Falls Highway and attempting to negotiate a turn. Mr. Canada-Love attempted to maneuver around the silver Honda, but struck the rear of the vehicle, causing his vehicle to overturn and strike a 2025 Mercedes-Benz&nbsp;traveling southbound, operated by Phillip VanWinkle, 46 of Berea, Ky., and occupied by 3 passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All occupants of the Honda HR-V and Mercedes-Benz were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the collision, and one passenger of the Mercedes-Benz was transported with injuries to Baptist Health in Corbin, where they were later released. Mr. Canada-Love was not wearing his seatbelt and sustained fatal injuries as a result of the collision.&nbsp;He&nbsp;was pronounced deceased by Whitley County Coroner Andy Crowly at 3:50 p.m.&nbsp;EDT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, drugs and alcohol are not suspected to be a contributing factor; however, toxicology results are pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detective Shane Bowling is leading the investigation and conducting a collision reconstruction. He was assisted on scene by KSP personnel, Oak Grove Fire Department, Whitley County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Whitley County EMS, and the Whitley County Coroner\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORBIN, Ky. (April 6, 2026) \u2013&nbsp;The&nbsp;Kentucky State Police Post 11 in London is investigating a fatal collision that occurred on Monday, April 6, 2026, at approximately 3:00 p.m.&nbsp;EDT&nbsp;on the Cumberland Falls Highway near the intersection of Ward Cemetery Rd. The preliminary investigation indicates that a 2017 Ram pickup&nbsp;truck, operated by John P. Canada-Love, 38, of [&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":[33,64],"tags":[159,108],"class_list":["post-57720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-11","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-11"],"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\/57720","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=57720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57721,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57720\/revisions\/57721"}],"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=57720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}