CHRISTIAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKRN) -- A multi-vehicle crash in Christian County sent four people to various hospitals overnight, including a child and a teenager.

Hopkinsville Fire-EMS announced on Saturday, Aug. 30 that it responded to the area of Highway 68 and Gracey-Sinking Fork Road around midnight for a three-vehicle crash near the intersection.

According to fire officials, crews found four patients, three of whom considered critical and required air transport to Nashville. First responders even had to cut one woman from her vehicle.

The department said an 8-year-old was flown to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, a 37-year-old was flown to TriStar Skyline Medical Center, and a 32-year-old was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In addition, an ambulance reportedly brought a 17-year-old to Jenny Stuart Health in Hopkinsville.

According to WKDZ Radio, the Christian County Sheriff's Office said two vehicles collided and then one of them accelerated, going eastbound in the westbound lanes, and hit a van and an SUV head-on before stopping.

The radio station said the driver traveling the wrong way was the one who had to be cut from the vehicle and then flown to Nashville, along with the driver of the van and her 8-year-old child. WKDZ Radio reported the teenager in the SUV who was driven to a local hospital only sustained minor injuries.

No additional details have been released about this incident.

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