70-year-old woman dies in downtown crash

Accident happened about 11:15 a.m. at Rose and Maxwell in Lexington

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – A 70-year-old woman was killed Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash at a busy downtown Lexington intersection.

Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn identified the victim as Genevieve Amis. She died at 11:49 a.m. at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, according to Ginn.

She was a passenger in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Rose Street and East Maxwell Street just before 11:15 a.m.

Police say the collision involved a pickup truck and a passenger car and a utility pole was struck during the accident.

The Lexington Police Department’s Collision Reconstruction Unit (CRU) was called-in to investigate the cause of the deadly crash.