Fatal Accident on US 23

**thetribe** · 12-28-2005, 08:37 PM

Fatal car crash on US 23 between Pike and Floyd County.

If anyone gets any information on this, please let me know.

I have some loved ones travelling right now so I would appreciate it if anyone hears anything before the news releases it tonight at 11.

AND if you have intentions on travelling through there, the road is closed because of the death.

PHSFAN · 12-28-2005, 08:42 PM

Where between Pikeville and Pburg is the accident Tribe? US 23 is a very dangerous road and it is always packed in certain areas...No doubt one of the most dangerous roads in EKY.

**thetribe** · 12-28-2005, 08:44 PM

The news just reported on 23 between the two counties.

No idea the whereabouts of the wreck and they had apparently just heard of it because it was breaking news and that is all that they had to say. More at 11.

23 is one of most dangerous roads in the nation and if I am not mistaken it has legally been declared the most dangerous stretch of road in Kentucky due to the number of fatal accidents that happen there every year.

**Midee1** · 12-28-2005, 08:47 PM

thetribe Wrote:The news just reported on 23 between the two counties.

No idea the whereabouts of the wreck and they had apparently just heard of it because it was breaking news and that is all that they had to say. More at 11.

23 is one of most dangerous roads in the nation and if I am not mistaken it has legally been declared the most dangerous stretch of road in Kentucky due to the number of fatal accidents that happen there every year.

I can understand that just by travelling from Ashland to Louisa occasionally. Overweight coal trucks seem to be a problem. I hope that no one in your family was involved in this tragedy.

PHSFAN · 12-28-2005, 08:47 PM

It wouldn't surprise me if it was the most dangerous. I love Pike County but a lot of people just can't drive very good there. Since they have made it 6 lanes from Coal Run up to Buckleys Creek, I say it has got even more dangerous.

The Cheem · 12-28-2005, 09:14 PM

Any News?

**thetribe** · 12-28-2005, 09:19 PM

No word yet.

I had a friend that went out car shopping today and that kind of worried me. Just got one of those feelings when I heard that one the news. I am pretty sure that she stayed in Floyd County though. Just worried.

Everywhere has bad drivers but like you said, Pike County has some of the worst. Lots of young drivers that 1.) don't know how to drive 2.) think that they have been driving long enough to do everything and 3.) don't use sense and drive WAY too fast and don't pay attention.

The coal trucks, semis, and other trucks make that road very dangerous. Alcohol and drug related accidents seem to cause alot of problems as well. People just don't think anymore before getting behind the wheel.

**15thRegionCrazy** · 12-28-2005, 09:58 PM

I'm pretty sure it was at the Harold red light.. I was trying to listen on the scanner at the jail.. I asked a deptuty sheriff and he said he had heard somebody was killed and somebody else was still trapped in the car... but he wasn't forsure.. it was over an hour ago when I heard.. if I hear anything else I will post it

**thetribe** · 12-28-2005, 10:19 PM

15thRegionCrazy Wrote:I'm pretty sure it was at the Harold red light.. I was trying to listen on the scanner at the jail.. I asked a deptuty sheriff and he said he had heard somebody was killed and somebody else was still trapped in the car... but he wasn't forsure.. it was over an hour ago when I heard.. if I hear anything else I will post it

If you hear anything please let us know.
Your dad comes in really handy in these situations.

**15thRegionCrazy** · 12-28-2005, 11:12 PM

There were 2 cars involved.. the woman who hit the other car head on is the one who died.. 2 people from the other car were taken to the hospital.. i don't think their injuries are life threatening but i'm not sure.. I don't want to say the woman's name who was killed just yet... but traffic is still backed up really bad
That's what I was told.. so I'm not 100% sure about all of it

DTfan · 12-29-2005, 12:08 AM

Man...I"m glad I didn't go out....I was asked to go bowling tonight by some friends and I was to drive and meet them there....but because of the rain I wasn't allowed...23 is VERY dangerous...people drive way too fast...

**15thRegionCrazy** · 12-29-2005, 12:48 AM

I also heard another story.. the one i posted earlier was what the Sheriff Dept had heard.. this one came from a guy that lives up there... so idk what exactly happened...
The guy from up there said the woman was driving too fast and hydroplaned and hit an ambulance.. she had her 2 grandchildren with her also.. he didn't know how anybody else was.. just that the woman had been killed.. so maybe it will be on the news later and we will find out exactly what happened

**15thRegionCrazy** · 12-29-2005, 01:06 AM

On WYMT.... Zana(sp) Kidd hydroplaned and hit an ambulance turning it over.. the ambulance did not have on any lights or sirens ....Kidd was killed on impact and the 2 EMTs were taken to the hospital and their injuries are not life threatening

DTfan · 12-29-2005, 01:13 AM

I was watching the news but somehow missed that....

Cats Fan · 12-29-2005, 02:43 AM

Here is the story from wymtnews.com

The first happened around 6:00 on U.S. 23 in Harold near the Pike-Floyd County line.

State Police say 59 year old Zina K. Kidd of Harold was driving north in heavy rain when she apparently hydroplaned, crossed the median and struck an ambulance.

Kidd was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two EMT's in the ambulance, 30 year old John Cruse of Virginia and 19 year old Wayne Niff of Shelbiana, were injured and taken to Pikeville Medical Center.

There were no patients in the ambulance.

**thetribe** · 12-29-2005, 03:17 AM

I caught it on the news this afternoon.
It didn't say anything about if the woman had grandchildren in there or not though that I heard, hope that she did not.
It had to be dangerous out tonight because it was pouring the rain and was actually hailing at my house.

**15thRegionCrazy** · 12-29-2005, 03:26 AM

I doubt she had her grandchildren with her if it wasn't on the news.. that is what that guy thought but he wasn't sure..

**thetribe** · 12-29-2005, 03:42 AM

Good then.

That would have made a heartbreaking story even worse but then again, you will hear everything when someone dies. Rumors come out of the cracks then.

**15thRegionCrazy** · 12-29-2005, 03:49 AM

He knew her and he said she usually had the kids with her or something.. so he may have assumed they were at the time.. but I'm glad they weren't because it would have made the story even worse

**thetribe** · 12-29-2005, 04:01 AM

Ohhh. That happens as well.

Everything is said and done now I guess, my heart goes out to her family and to the paramedics involved. One was from Shelbiana but I've never heard of him.

MCHS_FBALL#14 · 12-29-2005, 04:02 AM

23 is a dangerous road alot of deaths earlier this year when we opened football season against south floyd one of our players friends dad was killed on 23 on the way to the game the saddest thing to me besides the fact he was killed was that he thought and hoped we opened the season with a win his last words that we knew of anyways is "i would love to see the hornets win one against this team" but we couldnt follow through for him that 2 me is a sad thing
sorry a little off subject but something that comes to mind about 23

**thetribe** · 12-29-2005, 04:17 AM

My uncle got killed on a Kentucky highway and the Transportation Cabinet and stuff have yearly memorial services for people killed on Kentucky's roads so we went to the one at Prestonsburg because it was the closest and you would not BELIEVE the number of names from this area that were killed in one year and that was just in this district alone. Heartbreaking.