Multiple emergency crews responded the scene of the injury collision. KYTC shared its thinks to emergency responders as it announced all lanes had reopened to traffic as of about 3:41 p.m. Friday. 

The crash happened Friday morning. As of about 8:03 p.m., the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the crash site has been cleared and all lanes are open. 

KYTC says engineers attributed the sinkhole, which appeared at the 41 mile marker, to a natural spring that had eroded the soil over time. 

Kentucky State Police Post 1 is investigating the deadly collision. Troopers were notified about the crash around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, KSP says. 

The road — which is also known as Kentucky 278 — will be closed between mile markers 4 and 5 while the paving is being done.

PADUCAH — Starting next Tuesday, a lengthy closure will begin for North Friendship Road in McCracken County. Crews will begin a reconstruction project aiming to make the road safer and reduce crashes. 

 A milling and paving project along KY 795/Scale Road in Marshall County will take about two weeks to complete, the KYTC said in a Tuesday release. 

Crews are ready to begin construction on Phase 1 of an extensive improvement project along a section of North Friendship Road. A section of Old Friendship Road will be closed along the construction corridor — immediately at the North Friendship Road intersection — beginning at 6 a.m. on May 23. The closure will remain in place until May 30. 

The McCracken County Sheriff's Office says 70-year-old Eugene Cooper, from Cadiz, Kentucky had to be airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center after he was injured in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 24 Sunday afternoon. 

35-year-old Trisha Miller was able to climb out of the back hatch of her badly-damaged car on Saturday, after it rolled several times and struck a utility pole. Deputies say she suffered a possible back injury and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. 

Multiple construction projects and other work zones are going on in and around western Kentucky.

Local drivers should be on the lookout for state mowing teams working along several highways in the western Kentucky area over the next three weeks. 

KYTC says gravel scattered along the roadway at the crash site will have to be cleared before the road can reopen. 

Numerous traffic signals in downtown Mayfield were destroyed when the massive December 10, 2021 tornado swept through the area. Since then, several intersections have functioned as four-way stops — but the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says it won't be that way for much longer. 

From the grand opening of the U.S. 60 Cumberland River "Smithland" Bridge to ongoing road work near Paducah's Exit 3 and on the Purchase Parkway — this is the roadwork to be on the lookout for this coming week. 

The KYTC says South Road has been re-opened in Trigg County following a dump truck crash that temporarily blocked the roadway.

A bicyclist was taken to a local hospital after police say he was hit by a SUV in the parking lot of the Walmart along Irvin Cobb Drive in Paducah Monday night. 

A man and women had to be extricated from their car and taken to an area hospital after a crash Wednesday morning involving a minivan on  the U.S. 45 Ohio River "Brookport Bridge."

The U.S. 45 Ohio River Brookport Bridge reopened late Wednesday morning after authorities cleared the scene of a 2-vehicle crash. It was the second crash to happen on the bridge in two days. 

Drivers are asked to avoid the area if possible, the McCracken County Sheriff's Office says. 

The man who was arrested is accused of driving under the influence, wanton endangerment and drug possession. 

Police say an interstate highway in Illinois has reopened following a windstorm that kicked up blinding dust from fields and caused crashes that killed at least six people and injured dozens more.

It should have been one of the happiest days of newlywed Samantha Miller's life. But five hours after saying "I do," the 34-year-old bride died when she was hit by an alleged drunken driver in Folly Beach, South Carolina, as she left her wedding reception on Friday night.

Crews have cleared the site of a semitrailer crash that temporarily blocked Pinckneyville Road in Livingston County on Monday. 

The Cave-In-Rock Ferry resumed service Monday night after closing around 11 a.m. due to high winds. 

Drivers in Western Calloway County could see their travel impacted by milling and paving that began Friday along a section of Kentucky 1836, according to a release by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

Work on Kentucky 97 at the Terrapin Branch Bridge has been completed ahead of schedule according to a release by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. 

A daytime lane restriction for Interstate 69 in Graves County is expected to continue through the week of May 1 to allow for further work on Panther Creek Bridge and overflow structures, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says. 

A release by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says a new paving project is underway for Rockcastle Road in Trigg County as of Tuesday.

Multiple agencies responded to a "major collision" near the 9 mile marker of Interstate 24 westbound in McCracken County, Kentucky, Wednesday afternoon.  

KY 1748 will be restricted to one lane near the 5 mile marker while crews work on the Opossum Creek Bridge, and there will be a 10-foot maximum load width restriction within that work zone. 

The bridge was closed to all traffic from about 9 a.m. to about 2:30 p.m. Monday. 

The Paducah Police Department says Irvin Cobb Drive has reopened near Paducah's south side following a closure prompted by an accident involving a pedestrian. 

The work zone is expected to be in place from about 8:30 a.m. to about 3 p.m. each day through Wednesday.

Traffic was restricted near a crash on the Interstate 69 Northbound flyover ramp to Interstate 24 westbound.

KSP says one of the semitrailers was hauling chicken products and the other was hauling live cattle. KSP says the cattle were loose at the crash site, but they've since been contained. 

Ongoing construction at Paducah's Interstate 24 Exit 3 Interchange has been temporarily halted in preparation for the influx of tourists during the upcoming AQS QuiltWeek.

An accident involving a truck hauling a backhoe in the 6500 block of Houser Road is prompting the McCracken County Sheriff's Office to ask drivers to avoid the area until about 1 p.m. 

Old Friendship Road and Seneca Lane will be closed along the North Friendship Road construction corridor in McCracken County April 19 and 20 between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m.

 "Take it slow in the Cone Zone. You’ll be safer and so will we," the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 1 posted on their Facebook page Tuesday, as road crews across the country participate in the National Work Zone Awareness Week campaign.

As the weather starts to warm up, construction zones will become more frequent. That means you need to be even more alert when you hit the road. 

The McCracken County Sheriff's Office is asking drivers to be mindful of work-zone construction following two collisions on Interstate 24. 

A multi-vehicle wreck caused traffic to back-up on Interstate 24 Westbound near Exit 11 Monday morning.

Drivers are asked to be careful, and to be ready for stop conditions and to safely pass workers and equipment near the flow of traffic.  

A section of U.S. 641 will be restricted to one lane at mile point 0.529 so personnel can repair the P&L railroad overpass between Eddyville and Fredonia.

MCCRACKEN COUNTY, KY — Two drivers were injured in a wreck at the intersection of Old U.S. 45 and Kreb Station Road in McCracken County, Kentucky, Wednesday, the sheriff's office says. 

A Virginia man was taken to a local hospital and a Minnesota man received a traffic citation in McCracken County, Kentucky, after their vehicles collided, sending one of the cars involved over a guardrail and down a steep embankment. 

 Drivers should be alert for overnight lane restrictions between the 19 and 29 mile markers on Interstate 24 Wednesday and Thursday evening, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced on Friday the reopening of a section of North Friendship Road in Paducah and several roadways in Trigg County that were closed to allow an investigation into a military helicopter crash. 

The Carbondale Police Department says a pedestrian has died after being struck by two vehicles on West Walnut Street in the late-night hours.