Woman dies, 2 recovering after sign crushes car in parking lot of Denny's in Elizabethtown - WDRB

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A 72-year-old pistillate is dormant aft a car with 3 radical wrong was crushed by a falling motion successful the parking batch of a Denny's successful Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Thursday afternoon.

Elizabethtown Police Det. Chris Denham told WDRB News it happened astir 1:30 p.m. astatine the Denny's connected Mulberry Street, which is conscionable eastbound of Interstate 65.

All 3 adults, a antheral and 2 women, were successful the car. All 3 had to beryllium extricated by the occurrence department.

Denham said 1 of the women was transported by EMS to University of Louisville Hospital successful Louisville with captious injuries. He confirmed to WDRB News astir 7:40 p.m. Thursday that the woman, a 72-year-old, had passed away.

The coroner says the pistillate was Lillian Curtis. The victim's granddaughter, Amy Nichols, confirmed to WDRB News that the pistillate was her grandmother. She said her grandma was successful the backmost spot of the conveyance and that doctors described her caput coiled arsenic "catastrophic."

Nichols said her grandfather, Lloyd Curtis, who was successful the beforehand rider seat, had been released from Jewish Hospital 3 days agone aft having unfastened bosom surgery. She said helium was rushed backmost to the infirmary with "fluid connected his lungs" among "other injuries" and was waiting to beryllium transferred backmost to Jewish Hospital. Nichols said her mother, Mary Graham, was driving the conveyance with her parents wrong and "sustained a thorax wounded but is okay" and had been released from the hospital.

According to Nichols, the household was headed location to Columbia, Kentucky, and was driving successful the Denny's parking batch erstwhile the motion fell.

A GoFundMe page has been acceptable up by the household to assistance screen costs of a memorial work for Lillian Curtis.

Denham said helium believes aggravated upwind gusts contributed to knocking the motion from its base, sending it crashing down onto the conveyance below.

WDRB News Chief Meteorologist Marc Weinberg says 49 mph upwind gusts were reported Thursday successful Elizabethtown.

Images from WDRB News viewers showed the motion connected apical of the conveyance with archetypal responders nearby. Crews removing the motion from the country said it weighed astir 2,600 pounds, which is astir the value of a tiny car.

After the motion fell, a smaller motion connected the aforesaid rod was reinforced by a section motion company.

According to Elizabethtown City Code, signs similar the 1 that fell are required to beryllium built and maintained up to the state's standards. WDRB News has requested metropolis records regarding permits for signs astatine this determination arsenic good arsenic different documents showing attraction history. City officials person not yet responded to our request.

A video of the Denny's motion falling tin beryllium viewed below:

This communicative volition beryllium updated arsenic much accusation becomes available.