Officer Recovering After Paducah Collision

WKMS | By Whitney Jones

Published November 8, 2013 at 4:40 PM CST

Paducah police officer Austin Guill is expected to have a long recovery after a collision in Lowertown this week.

The Paducah Police Department says Guill underwent a successful surgery after being airlifted to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind., on Wednesday. Guill was seriously injured after a person driving a stolen vehicle ran a stop sign and crashed into Guill's police cruiser. Police Chief Brandon Barnhill says Guill is in good spirits and that his friends and family set up an account for donations, which can be made at any western Kentucky U.S. Bank branch.

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Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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