{"id":58315,"date":"2026-04-21T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=58315"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:01:15","slug":"p1-4-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p1-4-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Post 1 Investigates Fatal Collision in Marshall County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HARDIN, Ky. (April 21, 2026)<\/strong> \u2013 Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 1 is investigating a Friday morning collision that took the life of a Murray man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, April 17th, at 6:50am CT, KSP Post 1 received a call from Marshall County Dispatch requesting KSP assistance investigating a two-vehicle collision in the 7500 block of US 641 South. The initial investigation indicates that a truck-tractor with a semi trailer, operated by David A. Uribazo Izquierdo, 47 years old of Miami, Fl., was traveling northbound and slowing to turn into the parking lot of a business on US-641. A 2016 Chevrolet Malibu, operated by Cedric Cherry, 32 years old of Murray, Ky., was also traveling northbound on US-641. For reasons still under investigation, Mr. Cherry&#8217;s vehicle failed to slow and collided with the rear of the tractor trailer. Mr. Cherry was pronounced deceased on the scene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collision remains under investigation by Trooper Casey Hamby.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KSP was assisted on scene by the Marshall County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, Marshall County EMS, Marshall County Rescue Squad, West Marshall Fire Department, South Marshall Fire Department, Marshall County Coroner&#8217;s Office, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the Benton Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em># # #<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARDIN, Ky. (April 21, 2026) \u2013 Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 1 is investigating a Friday morning collision that took the life of a Murray man.&nbsp; On Friday, April 17th, at 6:50am CT, KSP Post 1 received a call from Marshall County Dispatch requesting KSP assistance investigating a two-vehicle collision in the 7500 block 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":[33,50],"tags":[159,48],"class_list":["post-58315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-1","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-1"],"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\/58315","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=58315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58316,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58315\/revisions\/58316"}],"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=58315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}