Shelby County Life Magazine : Shelby County, Kentucky

Local woman killed

Local woman killed
Posted: 12/1/2009

Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash in which a Shelbyville woman was killed Monday night.

Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Rice said Ashley Ford, 20, was turing left onto Midland Trail from the Speedway station about 9:30 p.m. when her vehicle was hit broadside by a pickup truck driven by Darrell Tipton, 25, also of Shelbyville. Tipton was not injured; Ford was pronounced dead at the scene.

Ford's passengers, David Baker, Jona Butler and Devon Peach, were injured, Rice said. One was flown to the University of Louisville, while the other two were taken to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville. No other information was available Tuesday morning about the passengers.

Rice said a car turning left into the gasoline station might have blocked the views of both Ford and Tipton.

Ford was not wearing a seat belt, Rice said. He added that speed was not likely a factor, and that police don't suspect drugs or alcohol were a factor, although results from blood tests, required in fatal accidents, are pending.

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