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Murray State Student, Local Teenager Die in LBL Car Collision

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  A collision on Highway 453 in Lyon County has claimed the lives of a Murray State University student and a recent local high school graduate. The Kentucky State police report a single vehicle collision on The Trace occurred last night.

A preliminary investigation reports that 18 year-old MSU student Kaitlyn Bowers was driving a 2013 Ford Mustang southbound on Highway 453 and, upon entering a left curve, the vehicle exited the roadway and struck a tree. Bowers and 18 year-old Joseph Phillips, also an MSU student, were transported to Murray-Calloway County Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

19 year-old Aaron Adams of Cadiz and 18 year-old Robert Clayton Jr. of Murray did not survive. Both were pronounced dead at the scene by the Lyon County Coroner. Adams was a freshman studying animal sciences at Murray State’s Veterinary Technology Program.

Nicole Erwin is a Murray native and started working at WKMS during her time at Murray State University as a Psychology undergraduate student. Nicole left her job as a PTL dispatcher to join the newsroom after she was hired by former News Director Bryan Bartlett. Since, Nicole has completed a Masters in Sustainable Development from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where she lived for 2 1/2 years.