6 dead in Interstate 65 chain reaction crash in Kentucky
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Six people were killed in a chain reaction crash involving two tractor-trailers and two passengers vehicles on a Kentucky highway Thursday night.
Five of the victims were in one of the passenger vehicles, the Bowling Green Daily News reported Friday. There was also a child in the vehicle who was injured and taken to the hospital.
The sixth fatality was the drivier of the second passenger vehicle.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kentucky State Police Trooper Jeremy Hodges says the accident happened just after 10:30 p.m. on I-65 near Bowling Green at a spot where road construction was taking place.
The highway also merges from three lanes to two at that spot.
One of the vehicles was pinned beneath a semi, Hodges said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Daily News reported that one semi was stopped in the right lane with the two passenger vehicles stopped behind it. A second semi traveling in the same lane failed to stop. It struck the trailing passenger vehicle, causing a chain-reaction.
All lanes of I-65 northbound were closed at Exit 28 for several hours, the paper reported.
It reopened just after 5 a.m.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Associated Press contributed to this report.