Former Resident of Adair County Dies In Crash on I-65

A former Adair County resident was killed in an accident involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 65 near Bowling Green Thursday night.
Forty-six-year-old Darrell Burton, an Adair County native who had lived here until moving to Glasgow a few years ago, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred at 8:22 p.m. Thursday in the northbound lanes of I-65 at the 23 mile marker.
According to the accident report issued by the Kentucky State Police Post in Bowling Green, the accident occurred when Burton, operating a 2004 Ford, was traveling north on I-65 in the right-hand lane.
A 2002 Freightliner tractor-trailer being operated by Phillip Foster, 43, of Memphis, TN, was also traveling north in the middle lane of the interstate.
Foster failed to see Burton’s vehicle in the right lane beside his truck, and attempted to merge into the right line. The truck’s right front hit the side of the Burton vehicle. The impact caused Burton’s vehicle to rotate in front of the tractor-trailer, and the tractor-trailer pushed the car up the interstate. Both vehicles then went into the median, and the Burton vehicle overturned on it’s top, and the tractor-trailer came to rest on top of the car.
Darrell Burton was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Three passengers in his vehicle were transported for treatment.
Cynthia Morgan, age 32, of Edmonton, was taken to the Bowling Green Medical Center, where she was treated and released.
Morgan’s two children, Tyler Huff, age 16, and Kendra Morgan, 13, were both flown to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, where they were treated and released.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Foster, was not injured.
According to a story in the Bowling Green Daily News, several area emergency organizations had to be called in to assist with extricating the victims from the Burton vehicle.
The accident was investigated by Trooper Terry Alexander.
Funeral services for Darrell Burton were held Sunday in Columbia.