From the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet:
All lanes of the Purchase Parkway are blocked at the 16.5 mile marker in Graves County due to two SEMI trucks involved in two crashes near the same location.
A SEMI loaded with processed chicken crashed blocking the southbound lanes of the Purchase Parkway near the KY 58 Overpass. As responders were working that crash a northbound SEMI crashed blocking the northbound lanes nearby.
These crashes are in the extended work zone along the Purchase Parkway where traffic is restricted to one lane, complicating response efforts.
Estimated duration is 4 hours of approximately 12:30 p.m., CDT.
Due to the work zone along the Purchase Parkway and the closure of all ramps in the KY 339 Wingo Exit 14 Interchange for reconstruction the entire length of the parkway is closed.
Northbound motorists should detour off at the Fulton Exit 7 interchange to take KY 307 South to U.S. 45 North to KY 80 to reach Interstate 69 via Mayfield Exit 21.
Southbound motorists should detour off at the I-69/KY 80 Exit 21 Interchange to follow U.S. 45 South to return to the Parkway at Fulton.
Motorists who regularly travel U.S. 45 between Fulton and Mayfield should be aware of additional traffic flow along the detour.
Caution is required.
A map of the crash site will be posted shortly at www.facebook.com/kytcdistrict1
Updates as appropriate.
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Graves Co. Sheriff’s Office photo.