STANFORD, Ky. (WKYT) - At the table where Walter Manual sat nearly every day, now sits a yellow rose.He’ll be missed. He understood what life was all about,” said friend Harold Upton.Manuel died Tuesday night as he was leaving Diary Queen, a place where he was a member of the ‘coffee club.‘“He was a Christian man, he talked about some stories in the Bible yesterday,” said Upton.Stanford police continue to investigate the crash but they say the ambulance did have its emergency equipment on, lights and siren. But it had a red light and didn’t stop when it went through the intersection. Police say Manuel had the green light.County fire chief Danny Glass pulled up on the accident scene, not knowing at first the victim was the man who preceded him as chief of district one.“He taught me a lot. He was here when I started in 1985,” said Glass. Manuel also worked for the city of Stanford department, served in the military, and once made Christmas trees for his profession.“He was a people person. He liked everybody. Everyone came in here, spoke to him you know,” said friend Clinton Sims.The Stanford EMS director says the ambulance had a crew of three taking a patient to be airlifted to Lexington when the crash happened. The director says in his 20 years of service the service has never been in a major or deadly accident.McKnight Funeral Home in Crab Orchard is handling arrangements for Manuel. The deputy coroner says the preliminary cause of death was ruled as blunt force trauma following an autopsy. FRANKFORT (AP) - Gov. Steve Beshear has unveiled a $753.6 million plan to widen and extend the Mountain Parkway.The project will eventually create a four-lane highway from the bluegrass region to Pikeville in eastern Kentucky. Beshear said Wednesday the proposal is part of the state highway plan hell present to lawmakers.He says its expected that tolls will eventually be collected along the parkway to help finance the project.The announcement comes as eastern Kentucky struggles from a downturn in its coal industry.Beshear says its time eastern Kentucky has the same four-lane access as other regions.The proposal won praise from House Speaker Greg Stumbo and Senate President Robert Stivers. Both are from eastern Kentucky. Stumbo says the project will create an economic lifeline to an area that needs it.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:13:10 +0000
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