Monday, February 5, at approximately 9:50 a.m., Kentucky State Police responded to a nine-vehicle, double fatality collision located on Interstate 24 at the 80-mile marker near Hopkinsville, KY in Christian County along the southwestern edge of Kentucky and northwest of Nashville, TN. One of those nine vehicles involved in the accident contained a local trio of sisters, two of whom lost their lives from the injuries they sustained in the accident.
The three sisters, 55-year-old Mary Engrav of Waukon, 58-year-old Joan Lyons of Waukon and 61-year-old Barb Winters-Kelly of Waterville, were traveling to Nashville, TN to attend the funeral of a family friend, according to family members. They are the daughters of Janette Ryder-Blong of Waukon.