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Driver arrested after vehicle destroys Gradyville polling place

He faces multiple charges from incident, after being ejected from westbound vehicle after it left KY 80, hit and destroyed the Gradyville/Nell Voting Place, goes airborne, lands on top of two parked cars at D & F Grocery, and does extensive damages to the vehicles.
See Matt Gould photos from the scene: Gradyville/Nell voting house demolished by out-of-control vehicle

By Adair Co. Deputy Sheriff Aaron Rainwater

Adair County Sheriff Deputy Aaron Rainwater was dispatched to a vehicle accident with injuries at 3:42pmCT, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 3:42pmCT.

Byron Firkins age 21, of Columbia, KY, was operating a 2000 Honda west on West Kentucky 80/Edmonton Road, when he traveled off the left shoulder of the road. The vehicle then traveled approximately 80 yards through a field where Firkins was ejected from the vehicle.



The vehicle then traveled on and ran through a storage building (owned by Adair Fiscal Court and used as the Gradyville/Nell voting house - CM). After running through the building the vehicle went airborne, landing on top of a 1992 Chevrolet Z71 pick-up and a 2013 Chevrolet Equinox SUV, belonging to Frances Salyers, of Columbia) that were parked in the D & F Grocery parking lot. Firkins' vehicle came to rest on top of the vehicles.

Firkins was treated on scene by Adair County EMS but refused transport.

Firkins was then arrested and charged with operating motor vehicle under influence of drugs/alcohol 1st offense, operating motor vehicle on suspended/revoked operators license, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Firkins was lodged in the Adair County Regional Jail.

Deputy Rainwater was assisted on scene by Detective Jamie Richards KSP and Jason Recter Adair County Constable. - Deputy Aaron Rainwater, Adair County Sheriff's Office


This story was posted on 2013-06-06 01:40:10
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Spectators view wreckage in Gradyville, KY



2013-06-06 - D & F Grocery, 4731 Edmonton Road, Columbia, KY 42728 - Photo by Matt Gould. Gradyville residents, frequent customers at the store consider the damage caused by the 2002 red Honda sitting atop two vehicles owned by D & F Deli, background, proprietor Frances Salyers, in a dramatic crash at around 3:30pmCT, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. The little blue roofed Z-loc panel building in foreground is owned by the Adair Fiscal Court. It was placed on the site in the first term of CJE Ann Melton to serve as a polling place for the Gradyville-Nell precinct in Magisterial District 4. The driver of the Honda, 21 year old Byron Firkins of Columbia, KY refused transport for medical injuries and was arrested, and lodged in the Adair County Regional Jail by Adair County Deputy Sheriff Aaron Rainwater. Firkins faces a number of charges.
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The spectacular vehicle crash at Gradyville, KY



2013-06-06 - D & F Grocery, 4731 Edmonton Road, Columbia, KY 42728 - Photo by Frances Salyers.
The photographer, Frances Salyers, Columbia, KY, saw two of her own 2 vehicles heavily damaged under the red 2000 Honda at the top of the car pyramid, when she snapped this picture. On the left is her 1992 Chevrolet Z71 pick-up and on the right, a 2013 Chevrolet Equinox SUV. Also wiped out in the runaway car episode was the Gradyville/Nell Voting House. The driver of the vehicle, Byron Firkins, 21, was arrested on multiple charges and was lodged in the Adair County Regional Jail.

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