"11 killed when van, truck collide in Ky." by Associated Press | March 27, 2010
MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. — A truck crossed a Kentucky interstate median yesterday and slammed head-on into a church van carrying a Mennonite family on its way to a wedding, killing 11 people.
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State Police Trooper Charles Swiney said two children survived the crash with the tractor-trailer on northbound Interstate 65. A pastor for the family in the van said they were Mennonites on their way to a wedding in Iowa. Authorities say the truck driver, who was from Alabama, was also killed. Officials say the tractor-trailer crossed the median and struck the van head-on around 5:30 a.m. near Munfordville, about 75 miles south of Louisville.
Traffic on the interstate remained at a standstill at mid-afternoon, with backups up to 5 miles long on the closed northbound side. Wreckage from the tractor trailer was strewn across the northbound I-65 lanes....
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