Kay Sandra Combs, 40, of Chavies, Kentucky, died Wednesday morning April 4, 1982, near the Buckhorn intersection with Highway 15, when the pickup truck she was driving collided with a Leslie County sanitation truck apparently headed to the nearby landfill. The victim's truck was pinned underneath the front of the garbage truck for a few hours as State Police attempted the rescue with the help of Hazard Police and Fire Departments. Traffic was held up in both directions on Highway 15 near the intersection of Hwy. 15 and Ky. 28 as workmen tried to put out the fire in order to remove the body. Mrs. Grigsby was declared dead at the scene by Perry County Coroner Eugene Mullins, according to Kentucky State Police Trooper Don Gilliam who worked the accident with the help of other troopers and Hazard police and Fire Departments.
She was the operator of the Combs Market, formerly Grigsby Market, about 1½ mile north of the accident scene, and was the mother of a daughter, 17, who attends M.C. Napier High School, and was the former wife of Dewey Grigsby. State Police reported that the Grigsby vehicle was traveling south on Hwy. 15 at 8:55 a.m. when she apparently lost control of her vehicle, traveled across the road into the northbound lane and collided with the sanitation truck driven by Barlow Stidham Jr., age 21, of Busy. Stidham was treated and released at Hazard ARH Hospital. A passenger in the Stidham truck, Gary Baker, of Yeaddiss, was not hurt, police said.
Mrs. Combs, was the daughter of Charles and Opal Combs, born to them in Perry County, Kentucky, on March 28, 1942. Besides her mother and daughter, survivors include, a brother and two sisters. Burial was in the Combs Family Cemetery, at Grapevine, Kentucky.
She was the operator of the Combs Market, formerly Grigsby Market, about 1½ mile north of the accident scene, and was the mother of a daughter, 17, who attends M.C. Napier High School, and was the former wife of Dewey Grigsby. State Police reported that the Grigsby vehicle was traveling south on Hwy. 15 at 8:55 a.m. when she apparently lost control of her vehicle, traveled across the road into the northbound lane and collided with the sanitation truck driven by Barlow Stidham Jr., age 21, of Busy. Stidham was treated and released at Hazard ARH Hospital. A passenger in the Stidham truck, Gary Baker, of Yeaddiss, was not hurt, police said.
Mrs. Combs, was the daughter of Charles and Opal Combs, born to them in Perry County, Kentucky, on March 28, 1942. Besides her mother and daughter, survivors include, a brother and two sisters. Burial was in the Combs Family Cemetery, at Grapevine, Kentucky.
Kay Sandra Combs, 40, of Chavies, Kentucky, died Wednesday morning April 4, 1982, near the Buckhorn intersection with Highway 15, when the pickup truck she was driving collided with a Leslie County sanitation truck apparently headed to the nearby landfill. The victim's truck was pinned underneath the front of the garbage truck for a few hours as State Police attempted the rescue with the help of Hazard Police and Fire Departments. Traffic was held up in both directions on Highway 15 near the intersection of Hwy. 15 and Ky. 28 as workmen tried to put out the fire in order to remove the body. Mrs. Grigsby was declared dead at the scene by Perry County Coroner Eugene Mullins, according to Kentucky State Police Trooper Don Gilliam who worked the accident with the help of other troopers and Hazard police and Fire Departments.
She was the operator of the Combs Market, formerly Grigsby Market, about 1½ mile north of the accident scene, and was the mother of a daughter, 17, who attends M.C. Napier High School, and was the former wife of Dewey Grigsby. State Police reported that the Grigsby vehicle was traveling south on Hwy. 15 at 8:55 a.m. when she apparently lost control of her vehicle, traveled across the road into the northbound lane and collided with the sanitation truck driven by Barlow Stidham Jr., age 21, of Busy. Stidham was treated and released at Hazard ARH Hospital. A passenger in the Stidham truck, Gary Baker, of Yeaddiss, was not hurt, police said.
Mrs. Combs, was the daughter of Charles and Opal Combs, born to them in Perry County, Kentucky, on March 28, 1942. Besides her mother and daughter, survivors include, a brother and two sisters. Burial was in the Combs Family Cemetery, at Grapevine, Kentucky.
She was the operator of the Combs Market, formerly Grigsby Market, about 1½ mile north of the accident scene, and was the mother of a daughter, 17, who attends M.C. Napier High School, and was the former wife of Dewey Grigsby. State Police reported that the Grigsby vehicle was traveling south on Hwy. 15 at 8:55 a.m. when she apparently lost control of her vehicle, traveled across the road into the northbound lane and collided with the sanitation truck driven by Barlow Stidham Jr., age 21, of Busy. Stidham was treated and released at Hazard ARH Hospital. A passenger in the Stidham truck, Gary Baker, of Yeaddiss, was not hurt, police said.
Mrs. Combs, was the daughter of Charles and Opal Combs, born to them in Perry County, Kentucky, on March 28, 1942. Besides her mother and daughter, survivors include, a brother and two sisters. Burial was in the Combs Family Cemetery, at Grapevine, Kentucky.
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