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Fatal Accident Sunday Kills Toya Buckner-Dioum and Sherman King, Sr. on Fern Valley Road, Louisville Kentucky

Double Fatality after Accident Sunday on Fern Valley Road-Kentucky wrongful death attorney
DATE:     August 23, 2009
LOCATION:     Fern Valley Road, Louisville, Kentucky
TYPE:     Two people were killed when the car they were in was struck by another on a test-drive from a near-by car dealership.


Early Sunday afternoon around 1:00 p.m. two people, a man and a woman,  were killed in an accident on Fern Valley Road in Jefferson County, Kentucky.  According to the Louisville Metro Police the identities of the two victims are 40-year-old Toya Buckner-Dioum and 63-year-old Sherman King, Sr.

The crash occurred when a Dodge Challenger being driven by 30-year-0ld Brian Lee was traveling west on Fern Valley Road.  He hit another car, a Mercury Sable, which had pulled onto the road from an apartment complex.  The Challenger was from Commonwealth Dodge and was in the process of being test-driven by Lee at the time of the accident.  In the car with Lee was a sales representative from the dealership as well as the driver’s brother.  According to the police speed may have been a factor in this tragedy. 

Mr. Lee was taken to University Hospital for treatment of his injuries.  He was then taken to Metro Corrections where he has been charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter.

According to a resident of the apartment complex there is a problem with speeding on this stretch of Fern Valley Road.  It is so sad to think that two people have lost their lives because someone may have been in a hurry.  My sympathies go to the families of both victims.