Kentucky State Police investigated a single vehicle injury collision on Monday, July 1st, 2019 at 8:27amET, 10 miles east of Liberty on KY 70.

Preliminary investigation indicates that 23 year-old Trevor Dowell of Tateville, KY was operating a 2000 Western Star tractor-trailer traveling East on KY 70.  Dowell came into a curve causing his passenger side wheels to drop off the right side of the roadway.  When the vehicle dropped off the roadway, the load shifted causing the vehicle to strike a culvert and overturn.  Dowell was transported to Lake Cumberland Hospital in Somerset by the Casey County EMS with non-life threatening injuries

Officer First Class Casey Tooley is investigating and was assisted on scene by other KSP personnel, Casey County Fire, EMS and Kentucky Department of Transportation.  

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