An Illinois man died at the hospital after a wreck on Interstate 24 in Trigg County Wednesday night.
Kentucky State Police say an eastbound tractor-trailer driven by 62-year-old Dariusz J. Kowalewicz of Wheeling, Illinois, hit an unoccupied vehicle on the side of the road causing his truck to run off the road, overturn and hit several trees.
Kowalewicz had to be extricated from his truck by the Trigg County Rescue Squad before he was transported to Tennova Healthcare in Clarksville by ambulance where he later died.
Several members of the rescue squad worked for nearly two hours to extricate Kowalewicz from the vehicle.
The crash happened at the 62-mile marker about three miles west of Cadiz just before 11 pm.
