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Wind Causes Fatal
Accident
05/12/08 WGC
An
early morning accident resulted in the death of a Vine
Grove woman. According to Meade County Sheriff William
“Butch” Kerrick, who describes the incident as a freak
accident caused by the gusty morning winds.
Stacy D. Lowman, 31, of Vine Grove, was driving eastbound
on Saint Martin’s Road just before 9 am Sunday morning, in
a 2000 Dodge minivan, when a falling tree limb,
approximately 5 to 6 inches in diameter, blown down by
high winds, struck the windshield of the van.
The limb went through the windshield, striking Lowman. The
van then left the roadway and came to rest in a yard. She
was treated at the scene by Meade County EMS and Flaherty
Fire Department personnel and was flown to Hardin Memorial
Hospital by Life Net air ambulance, where she succumbed to
her injuries.
Lowman’s husband Jason, and her two children, who were
passengers in the vehicle, were not injured.
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