{"id":60011,"date":"2026-06-08T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=60011"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:48:17","slug":"p13-6-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p13-6-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky State Police Post 13 Investigate Letcher County Fatal Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>COLSON, Ky. (June 8, 2026)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Kentucky State Police, Post 13 in Hazard is investigating a single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a Letcher County man over the weekend in the Colson community of Letcher County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, June 6, 2026, at approximately 11:52 p.m., Kentucky State Police responded to a crash detection alert near the intersection of KY-7 and KY-1410. Upon arrival, troopers located a Lincoln MKZ that had traveled over an embankment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preliminary investigation indicates that Kathy Hall, 71, of Deane, was traveling on KY-7 North while transporting a passenger to the hospital for a medical emergency. During the trip, the passenger, Eugene Hall, 72, of Deane, became unresponsive. As a result, the driver veered off the roadway and subsequently over-corrected, crossing the center line before the vehicle overturned onto its driver&#8217;s side in a nearby creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eugene Hall was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Letcher County Coroner\u2019s Office. Kathy Hall was airlifted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for treatment of her injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toxicology and autopsy results are pending. Both occupants were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash. The investigation remains ongoing and is being reconstructed by Detective Brandon Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLSON, Ky. (June 8, 2026)&nbsp;\u2013 Kentucky State Police, Post 13 in Hazard is investigating a single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a Letcher County man over the weekend in the Colson community of Letcher County. On Saturday, June 6, 2026, at approximately 11:52 p.m., Kentucky State Police responded to a crash detection alert near [&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,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,66],"tags":[159,111],"class_list":["post-60011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-13","tag-fatal-collision","tag-post-13"],"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\/60011","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=60011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60012,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60011\/revisions\/60012"}],"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=60011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}