A woman is dead and three other people are injured following a fatal three-vehicle collision Friday evening that shut down Louisville Road.
According to Ronnie Ward, public information officer for the Bowling Green Police Department, no charges have been filed at this time and it is too early to determine what caused the collision.
The crash occurred a little before 6 p.m. near Hardy and Son Funeral Homes. Ward said a white SUV was traveling northbound on Louisville Road, driving in the right-hand lane.
The SUV passed another vehicle in the grass by the roadway and clipped another vehicle also going northbound when it attempted to merge back in.
The driver of the SUV lost control, the vehicle veered left into the grass median, struck a utility light pole and went airborne.
Ward said the SUV collided hood-on-hood with a maroon four-door vehicle driving southbound on the other side of the roadway.
Ward said the driver of the southbound vehicle, a woman not from Bowling Green, was killed on impact. The male driver of the SUV was airlifted to a Nashville trauma center.
Two passengers, one from each vehicle, sustained minor injuries.
Ward said there was an infant in the back of the SUV, sitting in a car seat, that had no apparent injuries. The driver of the car that was clipped had no apparent injuries either.
The identity of the deceased driver has not yet been released. At the time of writing, BGPD had blocked off Louisville Road for a collision reconstruction while officers directed traffic down Old Porter Pike.
