VANCEBURG — A 16-year old Lewis County High School student was killed in a traffic accident early Friday morning. He was identified as Anthony L. Smith, according to the Lewis County coroner.
A second student, Toby Bray, 17, who was a passenger in the 1993 Chevy S-10 pickup driven by Smith, was severely injured and airlifted to Cabell-Huntington Hospital.
Christopher Moore of Garrison, the adult driver of a Ford F-150 pickup also involved in the accident, was taken by helicopter to St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington.
Lt. Tom Flannigan of the Vanceburg Police Department said the teens are believed to have been at Steve’s Market, where Smith’s grandmother is employed, shortly after 6 p.m. before the crash happened at the intersection of Ky. 59 and Ky. 9.
The officer described the crash as a high-speed accident which remains under investigation by the Vanceburg Police Department.
In an unrelated accident near Morehead, a woman was killed and two others received minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident Friday morning.
Traci Swartz, 42, of Wallingford, was pronounced dead at the scene on Ky. 32, a half mile west of the Morehead city limits, according to Kentucky State Police.
The accident occurred just after 9 a.m. when Swartz's eastbound 1996 Chevrolet Blazer slowed down because of a vehicle being towed from the westbound shoulder of the roadway.
An eastbound 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Brian Owens, 33, of Morehead struck the Blazer, causing it to overturn, police said.
Swartz, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle. Owens and a passenger in the Blazer, Daniel Moore of Wallingford, were treated at St. Claire Medical Center in Morehead and released, police said.
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