Two Kentucky crashes take three lives

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Two people are dead Saturday night after a car crash on on highway 70 in Taylor County.

According to the sheriff’s office 49-year-old Dewey Sturgell and 43-year-old Kerri Sturgell died when trying to pass a pickup.

The trucks hit each other then the Sturgell’s truck crashed into a tree.

The other pickup driver wasn’t hurt.

Another man died in a different car crash Friday night in Perry County.

State troopers say 35-year-old Eric Reed was pronounced dead at the scene.

A homeowner called troopers to say a car crashed into his house off highway 476 before 11 P.M.

No one inside the home was hurt, but a passenger was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.