A Tennessee man died following a traffic accident on the Cumberland Parkway earlier this week.
Kentucky State Police say the accident occurred just after 6 o’clock Monday evening near the 45-mile marker in Adair County.
The preliminary investigation revealed 47-year-old Andy Lohden of Smiths Grove was traveling wet on the parkway in a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country when he struck 56-year-old Charles Smith Jr. of Huntingdon, Tennessee.
State Police say Smith was operating a semi truck westbound, but had parked the truck on the shoulder of the road and was walking in the westbound lane when he was struck by Lohden’s vehicle.
Smith was pronounced dead at the scene by the Adair County Coroner’s Office. Trooper Lucas Justice is investigating the collision.
