Munfordville, KY. - State police say death toll has risen to 11 in truck-van crash on Kentucky interstate. There were two survivors, both children.
The fiery crash between a tractor-trailer and a van took place on northbound Interstate 65 in south-central Kentucky.
Emergency Management Director Kerry McDaniel says the crash happened around 5:30 a.m. CDT Friday morning. Hart County Coroner Jeff Roten confirmed the number dead in a phone call with The Associated Press.
McDaniel says the van was carrying "men, women and children" who were on their way to a wedding in Iowa. He said the tractor-trailer was going south and crossed the median, striking the van head-on near Munfordville, about 75 miles south of Louisville.
The truck hit a rock wall and burst into flames. McDaniel says the truck's driver was killed.
A pastor at a southern Kentucky church says many of the victims were from a Kentucky-based Mennonite family traveling in the van.
A hospital supervisor says the two people who were treated there were apparently the only two survivors. He's not identifying them, but police and a church pastor say the survivors were both children.
The church pastor says there were three young children in the van. He says the father was an assistant pastor at the church. He says the family's house burned down in December, and they had just moved into a new home built by church members.
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