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Just after 3pm on Thursday, December 13, 2018, Kentucky State Police Post 9 Pikeville received a call of a two vehicle accident on US 119, close to Pike Central High School. Preliminary investigation revealed a vehicle was traveling Northbound when it crossed the median and struck another vehicle traveling Southbound. The operator traveling north, identified as 48-year-old Carl Gross of Raccoon, was partially ejected from the vehicle due to the collision and was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Pike County Coroner’s Office. Te collision remains under investigation.