A truck driver involved in an accident on Thursday in Breckinridge County has died.
The crash happened in the 1000 block of Hwy 1401 on Thursday morning, according to Breckinridge County Emergency Management (BCEM), when a semi-truck, being driven north by 70-year-old Michael Gene Schafer, of Custer, flipped after a rear wheel on the trailer dipped off the roadway.
Schafer “was extracted and resuscitated at the scene by Breckinridge Central EMS and transported to Breck Memorial where Air Methods transported the patient to higher care,” BCEM said in a social media post.
Schafer died on Saturday at University of Louisville Hospital, according to WXBC.com.
His obituary states that, “Gene was a kind man with a big heart.”
(Photo: Michael Gene Schafer, courtesy of Trent-Dowell Funeral Home)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
