🌱 Boyd County Route 60 crash claims life of young Ashland resident

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📰 News we're reading

• Two killed in Boyd County highway crash, KSP investigating (fox56news.com) — A deadly crash on U.S. Route 60 near the Summit community killed a 23-year-old man from Ashland and a 27-year-old man from Rush when their truck left the road and struck an excavator. The wreck, which happened late Tuesday morning, is being reconstructed and investigated by Kentucky State Police, with multiple Boyd County emergency agencies responding to the scene.
   

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