Leitchfield, KY : A Leitchfield woman lost her life in a car crash on Wednesday, June 7, 2017

A Leitchfield woman lost her life in a car crash in Butler County on Wednesday morning, June 7.

At approximately 10:43 a.m. on Wednesday, Butler County Dispatch received a call of a single vehicle accident on Kentucky Highway 185 (Reedyville Road), about a quarter of a mile south of the crossroads of KY-70 and KY-185 near Roundhill, KY.

Leading up to the crash, a 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt, driven by 78-year-old Jackie Richardson, of Leitchfield, was travelling south on Hwy 185 when the vehicle left the roadway on the left side, according to Butler County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Heath West.

The Chevrolet then travelled down a steep embankment before striking a tree on the driver’s side door, West said.

When Butler County EMS arrived on the scene, Richardson was already deceased, according to West.

Deputy Butler County Coroner Brian McKinney ruled the preliminary cause of Richardson’s death blunt force trauma and pronounced her deceased at 11:03 a.m. on Wednesday.

West said law enforcement later learned that Richardson’s husband was in the hospital in Bowling Green (the direction in which Richardson was travelling), so officers suspect she was driving there, but they could not say so for sure.

The crash remains under investigation by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office and Butler County Coroner’s Office.

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Leitchfield woman killed in crash