Sleepy driver injured after leaving Bowling Green Road, striking fence, embankment

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A sleepy driver has been injured after leaving Bowling Green Road and striking a fence and embankment.

Sunday night at approximately 11:00, the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single-vehicle accident on Bowling Green Road at the Grayson/Edmonson County line. Upon arriving at the scene, Lt. Fred Norder found that 27-year-old David Cowles, of Bowling Green, had been traveling south on Bowling Green Road in a 1999 Toyota Avalon when police said he fell asleep at the wheel.

When Cowles awoke, he was traveling on the shoulder of the road and over-corrected the car, causing the vehicle to slide sideways and exit the opposite side of the road and into a ditch. The Toyota then struck a wooden fence (taking out about 40 feet of the fence) before striking an embankment and spinning the vehicle 180 degree when it again struck the fence.

Norder said Cowles was not wearing a seat belt and thrown into the windshield before being tossed into the back seat of the car.

He was transported to a Bowling Green hospital by private means.

By Ken Howlett, News Director

Contact Ken at ken@k105.com or 270-259-6000