Ambulance Inc. of Laurel County's Emergency Medical Technician Karen Hill, age 36, and 42-year-old Charlie Shepherd, were treated and released from Marymount Medical Center following a series of accidents on U.S. 25-E just past the Laurel-Knox county line.

Hill and Shepherd were responding to an injury-accident in front of Pickard's Dodge car dealership on Hwy. 25-E around 1 p.m. when the ambulance they were driving was struck in the driver's side by a 1987 Jeep driven by 18-year-old Chandlar Cook of Corbin.

Cook was reportedly trying to cross U.S. 25E from the north side to the south side when he "T-boned" the ambulance, causing minor injury to Hill and between $3,500 to $4,000 in damage to the ambulance. Corbin City Police Officer Steve King said that Cook's vision was blocked by two tractor-trailers waiting in a line of traffic backed up from the first wreck approximately 100 yards ahead, even though the ambulance had engaged its sirens and emergency lights as it attempted to weed through the stalled traffic toward the first accident.

The first wreck occurred around 12:30 at the intersection of Ohler Road and U.S. 25E when the vehicle driven by 31-year-old Aden Clark struck a 1996 Cadillac driven by 53-year-old Lee Roy Harrell. Harrell's vehicle then struck a 1985 Blazer, causing the Blazer to flip onto its passenger's side while Harrell's Cadillac crashed into two parked vehicles on the Pickard's lot.

Injured in that accident were Clark and a passenger in his Toyota Corolla, Gary Fields; Harrell and three passengers, 49-year-old Louise Harrell, 60-year-old Anna Harrell, and 77-year-old Dorothy Barton, all of Corbin. Sustaining minor or no injuries were the occupants of the overturned Blazer--the driver, his wife, and their four children who ranged in ages from 2 to 11.