Franklin Clark/Cadiz Record
A John Deere tractor (above right) that was involved in a Saturday morning accident on Rockcastle Road that claimed the lives of four Cadiz residents was hauled away early Saturday afternoon. The road was closed for about five hours.
Dalton R. McDougall, 19, Kimberly M. Shafer, 18, Lindsey M. Sholar, 17, and driver David M. Shoaf, 30, were pronounced dead at the scene by Trigg County Coroner John Mark Vinson.
Trooper Billy Over with the Kentucky State Police says four of the five people in the van died, while the fifth person, Brenden J. Breen, 18, was taken to Trigg County Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and later released, and that the driver of the tractor, Carl G. Calhoun, 58, of Cadiz, was uninjured. He added that Breen was the only one wearing a seat belt.
Over said the John Deere tractor was traveling southbound and the Toyota passenger van was traveling northbound, and for unknown reasons that are still under investigation, the two vehicles hit near the curve at Missionary Baptist Church at about 8 a.m.
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