WIRT MAN DIES IN COLLISION WEST OF SPENCER

(07/05/2006)
Spencer newspapers are reporting today that a Wirt County man was killed this morning in a head-on collision west of Spencer on U.S. 33.

Emergency services responded at 8:44 a.m.

The man has been identified as Eugene Hamm, 30, of Palestine.

Hamm was pronounced dead at the scene.

He was driving a 1990 Subaru that was headed east, when his vehicle collided with a westbound 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Diane Kyer of Spencer.

She was taken to Jackson General Hospital, her condition is unknown.

The accident happened in a curve near the intersection of Reedyville-Golf Course Road during a rain, according to the Times Record-Roane County Reporter.