On Monday, June 6, 2022 around 8:10amCT, Adair County 911 received a call of an overturned dump truck 9 miles east of Columbia on KY 80. Adair County Deputy Gary Roy was dispatched to the scene along with Adair EMS and the Columbia Adair Fire Department.
The preliminary investigation shows that 50-year-old Christopher Anderson of Campbellsville, KY was traveling west on KY 80 In a 1992 international dump truck. The truck dropped off the right shoulder of the roadway and in an attempt to recover the truck, Anderson over-corrected, traveled back onto the highway and left the roadway on the eastbound side with the truck overturning.
Anderson was treated on scene by Adair EMS and was transported to TJ Health Columbia and later airlifted to Vanderbilt Hospital in Tennessee.
Deputy Gary Roy is continuing the investigation.