PADUCAH, KY. (THECOUNT) — Caleb Puckett, Andrew Morgan and Kain Clarkson have been identified as the young victims in a triple-fatal crash in Paducah, Kentucky on Tuesday morning, according to reports.
Police say, Morgan and Clarkson, both 15 and 20-year-old Puckett, were killed after a stolen car they were traveling in crossed centerlines and exited the roadway. The vehicle then collided with a substantial tree and the front porch of a home early Tuesday morning in Paducah.
The Paducah Police Department says officers received a report of a Cadillac stolen from the parking lot of Incognito on Clarks River Road around 1 a.m. Tuesday.
An officer spotted a Cadillac matching the description of the stolen vehicle and began to follow it. The officer confirmed that the license plate matched, that of the stolen vehicle.
A police report stated that the officer turned on his cruiser’s lights and sirens to get the Cadillac to stop, but the driver sped up instead. The officer pursued the car on Old Mayfield Road, then south on Schneidman Road. There, the news release says, the car went over a railroad crossing and went airborne before running off the road and hitting a tree and the front porch and roof supports of a house near Starnes Drive, reports WSPDLocal6.
The police department says officers at the scene gave first aid to the three people in the vehicle until medical responders arrived, but they were ultimately pronounced dead at the scene of multiple blunt force trauma injuries by the McCracken County Coroner’s Office.
The Paducah Police continue to investigate the crash.
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Geo quick facts: Paducah is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast – Wikipedia.
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