CLAY CITY, KY – The Kentucky State Police is reporting that KSP Post 8, Morehead, was contacted by Powell County dispatch to investigate a fatal traffic collision that occurred on Main Street in Clay City.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a White Buick Encore operated by Alyson Marie Kay Martin was traveling on Main Street near the Dairy Queen in Clay City. The vehicle struck a male individual identified Ross P. Hicks, 42 , of Mt. Sterling. Mr. Hicks was pronounced deceased at the scene by Powell County Coroner Megan Wells Curtis.
Alyson Martin, 25, of Jeffersonville, Kentucky was arrested and is charged with the following:
- TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
- VEHICULAR HOMICIDE WHEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL
- OPER MTR VEHICLE U/INFL ALC (189A.010(1B) - 1ST (AGG CIR)
- LEAV SCENE OF ACCIDENT/FAIL TO RNDR AID/ASSIST W/DEATH OR SERIOUS PHYS INJ
This individual was lodged the Montgomery County Regional Jail.
KSP was assisted by Clay City Police Department, Powell County Fire and EMS, Powell County Sheriff’s Department, Powell County Coroner, Mt. Sterling Police Department and other KSP personnel.
The collision is being reconstructed and remains under investigation by Trooper Leoncio Leal.
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