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Driver in Kentucky crash that killed 11 Mennonites was on phone
A Kentucky state police report says the Alabama truck driver involved in a March crash that killed himself and 10 others in central Kentucky was talking on a cell phone.
Police say Kenneth Laymon of Jasper, Ala., crossed the median of Interstate 65 in central Kentucky on March 26 and slammed into a van carrying Mennonites traveling to a wedding in Iowa.
The Kentucky State Police report says Laymon did not have his tractor-trailer under control. Two young children survived the crash.
The report, obtained this week by The Courier-Journal of Louisville, says Laymon may have also been speeding. The report says another truck driver who witnessed the wreck estimated Laymon was traveling at 80 mph.
-- Associated Press
Barren County Coroner Mike Swift looks over the scene of an accident that claimed the lives of 11 people Friday, March 26, 2010, on Interstate 65, four miles north of Horse Cave, Ky. (AP Photo/Daily News, Joe Imel)
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