Kentucky State Police responded to a single-vehicle collision in Hardin County Friday (08/11) afternoon that resulted in a fatality.
At approximately 1 p.m. EDT, Kentucky State Police Post 4 received a call in reference to a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed eastbound on Bardstown Road near the city limits of Elizabethtown. Moments later, Kentucky State Police received a call from the Elizabethtown Police Department stating the motorcycle had collided with a concrete culvert near the intersection of Bardstown Road and Botto Avenue.
The preliminary investigation revealed that 29 year-old Nicholas Carr, of Chestnut Mound, TN, was operating a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle eastbound on Bardstown Road at a high rate of speed when he lost control and ran off the roadway before striking a concrete culvert. Investigators learned 30 minutes before, a motorist on I-65 had called Kentucky State Police Post 3 in Bowling Green about a motorcycle traveling north on I-65 driving at a high rate of speed and in a reckless manner. A Post 4 trooper did observe Carr near the 87-mile marker but, due to high speeds, was not able to continue to observe the motorcycle, and it was soon lost.
Carr was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Hardin County Coroner’s Office.
Kentucky State Police was assisted at the scene by the Hardin County EMS and the Hardin County Coroner’s Office. The collision remains under investigation by the Kentucky State Police.
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