Three children hospitalized after vehicle crash in Warren County

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- A wreck involving three vehicles critically injured three children Friday afternoon in Warren County on Cemetery Road near Fountain Trace.

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 manner.  The van was being operated by Doris R. Coleman, 60, of Bowling Green.

Three children were taken by medical helicopter to Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville; a 7-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl.

Coleman and Tanero were treated at to The Medical Center at Bowling Green with non-life threatening injuries.