Kentucky New Era story posted 26 Jul 1971 reads as follows:
FIVE CADIZ RESIDENTS DIE IN ONE CAR CRASH
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Five young men are dead as the result of the worst traffic accident ever to occur in neighboring Trigg County.
Killed Saturday afternoon when the car in which they were riding plunged through the side of a concrete bridge were Bradley Eugene Wilson, 18, James Cleveland Radford, 24, Freddie Eugene Cavanaugh, 19, James Edward Acree, 17, and Darrel Douglas Bingham, 18, all of Cadiz.
State Police say these were the first traffic deaths in Trigg County this year. According to their reports, the accident occurred about 4 pm about two and one half miles north of Cadiz on Ky. 139.
The victims were killed instantly when their car left the road, hit an abutment at the Muddy Fork Bridge and plunged down onto a bank of the creek.
The car was traveling toward Cadiz at the time of the accident.
Young Acree, a NEW ERA carrier boy, would have been a member of the varsity football team at Trigg County High School this fall.
The bodies of both Radford and Acree are at Bridges Funeral Home in Princeton. The other three are at Babbage Funeral Home in Hopkinsville.
Acree was a native of Trigg County and was the son of Emma L Marvin Acree, who survives.
He was a member of the Second Baptist Church in Cadiz, where services will be at 2 pm Thursday with the pastor, the Rev. J D Marks, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, Cadiz.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Barbara and Sandra Denise Acree; four brothers, Lawrence William, Dennis Earl and Victor and Spencer Acree; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tandy Alexander and the Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Acree, all of Cadiz.
FIVE CADIZ RESIDENTS DIE IN ONE CAR CRASH
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Five young men are dead as the result of the worst traffic accident ever to occur in neighboring Trigg County.
Killed Saturday afternoon when the car in which they were riding plunged through the side of a concrete bridge were Bradley Eugene Wilson, 18, James Cleveland Radford, 24, Freddie Eugene Cavanaugh, 19, James Edward Acree, 17, and Darrel Douglas Bingham, 18, all of Cadiz.
State Police say these were the first traffic deaths in Trigg County this year. According to their reports, the accident occurred about 4 pm about two and one half miles north of Cadiz on Ky. 139.
The victims were killed instantly when their car left the road, hit an abutment at the Muddy Fork Bridge and plunged down onto a bank of the creek.
The car was traveling toward Cadiz at the time of the accident.
Young Acree, a NEW ERA carrier boy, would have been a member of the varsity football team at Trigg County High School this fall.
The bodies of both Radford and Acree are at Bridges Funeral Home in Princeton. The other three are at Babbage Funeral Home in Hopkinsville.
Acree was a native of Trigg County and was the son of Emma L Marvin Acree, who survives.
He was a member of the Second Baptist Church in Cadiz, where services will be at 2 pm Thursday with the pastor, the Rev. J D Marks, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, Cadiz.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Barbara and Sandra Denise Acree; four brothers, Lawrence William, Dennis Earl and Victor and Spencer Acree; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tandy Alexander and the Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Acree, all of Cadiz.
Kentucky New Era story posted 26 Jul 1971 reads as follows:
FIVE CADIZ RESIDENTS DIE IN ONE CAR CRASH
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Five young men are dead as the result of the worst traffic accident ever to occur in neighboring Trigg County.
Killed Saturday afternoon when the car in which they were riding plunged through the side of a concrete bridge were Bradley Eugene Wilson, 18, James Cleveland Radford, 24, Freddie Eugene Cavanaugh, 19, James Edward Acree, 17, and Darrel Douglas Bingham, 18, all of Cadiz.
State Police say these were the first traffic deaths in Trigg County this year. According to their reports, the accident occurred about 4 pm about two and one half miles north of Cadiz on Ky. 139.
The victims were killed instantly when their car left the road, hit an abutment at the Muddy Fork Bridge and plunged down onto a bank of the creek.
The car was traveling toward Cadiz at the time of the accident.
Young Acree, a NEW ERA carrier boy, would have been a member of the varsity football team at Trigg County High School this fall.
The bodies of both Radford and Acree are at Bridges Funeral Home in Princeton. The other three are at Babbage Funeral Home in Hopkinsville.
Acree was a native of Trigg County and was the son of Emma L Marvin Acree, who survives.
He was a member of the Second Baptist Church in Cadiz, where services will be at 2 pm Thursday with the pastor, the Rev. J D Marks, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, Cadiz.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Barbara and Sandra Denise Acree; four brothers, Lawrence William, Dennis Earl and Victor and Spencer Acree; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tandy Alexander and the Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Acree, all of Cadiz.
FIVE CADIZ RESIDENTS DIE IN ONE CAR CRASH
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Five young men are dead as the result of the worst traffic accident ever to occur in neighboring Trigg County.
Killed Saturday afternoon when the car in which they were riding plunged through the side of a concrete bridge were Bradley Eugene Wilson, 18, James Cleveland Radford, 24, Freddie Eugene Cavanaugh, 19, James Edward Acree, 17, and Darrel Douglas Bingham, 18, all of Cadiz.
State Police say these were the first traffic deaths in Trigg County this year. According to their reports, the accident occurred about 4 pm about two and one half miles north of Cadiz on Ky. 139.
The victims were killed instantly when their car left the road, hit an abutment at the Muddy Fork Bridge and plunged down onto a bank of the creek.
The car was traveling toward Cadiz at the time of the accident.
Young Acree, a NEW ERA carrier boy, would have been a member of the varsity football team at Trigg County High School this fall.
The bodies of both Radford and Acree are at Bridges Funeral Home in Princeton. The other three are at Babbage Funeral Home in Hopkinsville.
Acree was a native of Trigg County and was the son of Emma L Marvin Acree, who survives.
He was a member of the Second Baptist Church in Cadiz, where services will be at 2 pm Thursday with the pastor, the Rev. J D Marks, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, Cadiz.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Barbara and Sandra Denise Acree; four brothers, Lawrence William, Dennis Earl and Victor and Spencer Acree; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tandy Alexander and the Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Acree, all of Cadiz.
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