WALTON, Ky. — One person is dead following a crash on I-75 South just past the I-71/I-75 split, the Boone County Sheriff's Office said.
Stanley D. Cox, 74, was driving a Honda Civic and sitting in stopped traffic on an exit ramp. The sheriff's office said a 43-year-old man was driving a Chevrolet Silverado, and as he approached the exit ramp, he rear ended Cox's vehicle.
That collision caused a domino effect of a crash involving five other vehicles, the sheriff's office said.
Cox had a 69-year-old passenger in the vehicle that was air lifted to UC Medical Center after the crash. That passenger remains in critical condition.
Three other people were taken to the hospital, but are expected to be OK.
Officials shut down all southbound lanes of I-75 near the Mary Grubbs Highway exit for hours after the crash.
The multi-vehicle crash remains under investigation by the Boone County Sheriff's Office Accident Reconstruction Team.
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