UPDATE: Names of two people killed in head-on collision released

Update:  Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 9:43 p.m. EDT

SOMERSET, Ky. (WTVQ) – A head-on collision left two people dead and another injured Thursday afternoon in Pulaski County, according to investigators.

Deputies say 42-year old Penny Brown, of Carrollton, was driving a 2002 Chevy Suburban east on East Highway 80 just before 3:00 p.m., when she crossed the center line and collided head-on with a 2017 Jeep Cherokee.

The driver of the Jeep, 62-year old Michael Duvall, of Elizabethtown, and Brown, were both killed, according to investigators.

A passenger in Duvall’s Jeep, 50-year old Rholda Duvall, of Elizabethtown, was airlifted to U.K. Hospital in Lexington.

The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office Accident Reconstruction Division is investigating the deadly collision.

Original story from Steve Rogers below:

PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – Westbound traffic is being diverted on Highway 80 in Pulaski County because of a fatal traffic accident.

State transportation officials say the accident is on Highway 80 West — the Hal Rogers Parkway — at mile-marker 8 between London and Siomerset.

The accident happened at about 3:15 p.m.

Traffic is being diverted on KY 1956.

No other details on the crash have been made available.