UPDATE: Three children remain in hospital after car crash in Warren County
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Three children involved in a car crash in Warren County last Friday remain hospitalized.
Kentucky State Police Trooper, Jeremy Hodges tells WNKY that a 5-year-old girl remains in extremely critical condition.
The other two girls, ages 7 and 9, are also still hospitalized at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Friday’s crash happened around 11:30 on Cemetery Road, near Fountain Trace Drive.
Jack M. Sikes, 64, of Bowling Green was driving a 2003 Chevrolet pickup east on Cemetery Road, when a utility trailer in tow separated from the rear hitch of Sikes’ pickup, according to a release from Kentucky State Police. The utility trailer crossed into the westbound travel lane where the trailer struck a 2011 Ford Focus passenger car being driven by Jacquelyn A. Tanero, 22, of Glasgow, who was traveling west.
After the trailer struck Tanero’s car, her vehicle crossed the center line of the roadway, colliding with a 2017 Honda Odyssey van in a head on. The van was being operated by Doris R. Coleman, 60, of Bowling Green.
All three girls were traveling in the car Tanero was driving.
Tanero and Coleman were treated at The Medical Center at Bowling Green with non-life threatening injuries.
