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Melissa Rexroat Craigmiles: The tanker turnover & our trip to KY

Russell County ex-pat living in Indiana - where she heroicly travels in a UK Blue Altima with a "A Proud to be from Russell Springs, KY," sticker on it - makes weekly trip to Mt. Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery on Damron Creek Road. It is usually great - and usually pleasantly uneventful. But Saturday, July 29, 2017, was another story - this story.
Click on headline for complete account of the Sealer Tanker Turnover at the top of the roller coaster hills, the Altima Sensor, and the ultimate safe journey back through Columbia and home to Hoosierland.

By Melissa Rexroat Craigmiles

Hi. I wanted to write about this accident, the one involving an asphalt sealer tanker on Saturday, July 29, 2017.

My husband James & I live in Indiana, and we drive down about every weekend to the gravesite of my parents, Oris & Gladys Rexroat at Mt Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery on Damron Creek Road at Webbs Crossroads.



James and I had a nice day trip we take every Saturday from Southern Indiana down to Russell Springs, and we were leaving Russell Springs very low on gas; my husband who was driving, wanted to make it to Columbia before we refueled our little blue (Kentucky Blue) Altima with a "Proud to be from Russell Springs, KY" sticker, which I have on the back window.

We were really making good time to head back home to Indiana when suddenly we came up on this accident. We sit about 40 minutes and my husband grumbled and fussed about how long it was taking. I got out and stood awhile, as many cars had turned around, headed back down the Russell Creek Hill.

My husband dreads this hill every weekend.

We watched the scene.

We finally turned around and I misdirected us out the Royville/Sano Road.

We were very low on gas and then something awful happened; we had been having an issue with a little fuel line sensor slipping off its place; and it did it out the Sano Road.

James got out, worked on it awhile, we went back out the road and were right back at the accident again.

He was fuming a bit.

I directed him back to the Cumberland Parkway to head to Columbia, and on to Elizabethtown to catch I-65 back home to Clark County, Indiana where we live.

It was some excitement. - Melissa Rexroat Craigmiles Comments re article 91926 Injury collision involving asphalt sealer tanker occurs 29 Jul 2017


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