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FATAL COLLISION ON THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY IN GRAYSON COUNTY

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LEITCHFIELD, KY – The Kentucky State Police is reporting that on Thursday, August 18, at approximately 8:30 A.M. hours CDT, KSP Post 4 received a call from Grayson County dispatch requesting assistance in investigating a two-vehicle fatal collision near the 103 mile marker of the Western Kentucky Parkway in Grayson County.

 KSP Post 4 troopers responded to the scene and began an investigaton. The preliminary investigation revealed that Meagan Renfrow, age 34 of Morgantown, was traveling east on the Western Kentucky Parkway, near the 103 mile marker, in a 2003 Jeep Liberty when for unknown reasons she crossed the median into the west bound lanes striking a 2016 Ford Fusion being operated by Dakota Parks, age 31 of Eastview.

Parks was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Grayson County Coroner’s Office.

Meagan Renfrow was transported to Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

The affected portion of the Western Kentucky Parkway was closed for several hours in order to allow Troopers to reconstruct the collision.

KSP Post 4 was assisted at the scene by the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, Grayson County EMS, Leitchfield Fire Department and the Grayson County Coroner’s Office.

The collision remains under investigation by reconstructionist Detective Brad Holloman.

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