ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — Kentucky State Police are investigating after a deadly single-vehicle collision in Elizabethtown on Friday afternoon.
According to a news release, KSP Post 4 received a call in relation to a motorcycle traveling at a high speed eastbound on Bardstown Road near the city limits.
Officers said shortly after that call they received a call from the Elizabethtown Police Department stating the motorcycle had crashed into a concrete culvert near the intersection of Bardstown Road and Botto Avenue.
KSP said their preliminary investigations shows that Nicholas Carr, 29, was driving a motorcycle eastbound on Bardstown Road at a high speed when he lost control and ran off the road before hitting the concrete culvert.
According to a news release, roughly 30 minutes before the crash, a motorist on I-65 had called KSP Post 4 about a motorcycle heading north on I-65 speeding and driving in a "reckless manner."
Authorities said a Post 4 trooper did see Carr but, due to high speeds, he was soon lost.
Carr was pronounced dead on the scene.
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