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Seattle Police are investigating an officer-involved crash in South Seattle Thursday. Just before 6:00 a.m., a SPD officer was driving a marked patrol car north on Swift Avenue South. A man driving south in a silver 4-door sedan crossed the center line, and hit the officer head on. Medics took the officer to the hospital with minor injuries. The other driver was treated on the scene, and did not need further treatment Traffic Collision Investigation Squad detectives are investigating the collision.
Donald Jeffries, 50, of Goshen was traveling east on Highway 36 around 11:30 a.m. when his vehicle crossed the center line and collided head-on with a westbound vehicle driven by Stephen Wise. Jeffries, who was not wearing a seat belt, was transported by ambulance to the Carroll County Memorial Hospital. Wise, 35, was flown to University of Louisville Hospital. Nicole Wise, a 34 year-old passenger traveling with Stephen Wise was transported by helicopter to University of Louisville Hospital. A juvenile passenger in Wise’s vehicle was flown to Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville.
A New Albany woman, later identified as Karen Davis, 52, died Monday afternoon in a head-on wreck on Old Ind. 403 in Charlestown. The woman was southbound on the Clark County road about 2:30 p.m. when her car and another car collided near the Danbury Oaks subdivision, said a detective with the Charlestown Police Department. A 28-year-old Charlestown man who was driving the other car, a Buick, had his four-year-old son with him at the time of the collision.