2 People Dead After Fatal Crash in Bell County

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Two people died after a car ran off the road and overturned in Bell County Sunday, according to Kentucky State Police.

The crash occurred just before 9 a.m. in Arjay, state police said. It happened on Kentucky Route 66 and involved one car. The driver, 48-year-old Michael Collett, died on scene. A passenger, 22-year-old Charles Upton, also died on scene.

The two were traveling East in a KIA passenger car and “veered off the roadway into a ditch line,” state police said in a news release. The KIA overturned after hitting the ditch line and both victims were ejected from the car.

Both victims were Arjay residents, state police said. A Bell County deputy coroner declared them dead on scene.

A state police trooper was investigating the crash, officials said.