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Dave Lawson, of Elizabethtown, hugs Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Joe Prather following Gov. Steve Beshear’s announcement Wednesday that 44.1 miles of median cable barriers will be installed along Interstate 65 in Bullitt, Hardin, Hart and Barren counties and the Gene Snyder Freeway in Louisville. Lawson’s wife, Myra, and daughter, Cassandra, were killed in a head-on collision on I-65 on March 19 in Hart County after a pickup truck crossed the median and struck the van in which the Lawsons were riding.
GINA KINSLOW / Glasgow Daily Times


Gov. Steve Beshear announced a $10.8 million median cable barrier project during a press conference Wednesday at the rest area on I-65 near Munfordville.
GINA KINSLOW / Glasgow Daily Times


Jennifer Lawson of Louisville, one of two survivors of a March 19 wreck that took the lives of five people, holds her 4-year-old niece, Veronica Walker of Scottsville.
GINA KINSLOW / Glasgow Daily Times


www.BarriersNow.com Myra and Cassandra Lawson
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Published July 03, 2008 05:14 pm - Jennifer Lawson doesn’t remember much about the March 19 wreck that took the life of her mother and twin sister.

Gov. announces cable barriers
Family that advocated for devices is pleased

By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times

MUNFORDVILLE

Jennifer Lawson doesn’t remember much about the March 19 wreck that took the life of her mother and twin sister.

“I just remember the truck coming at us and then it was all a blur until the hospital,” said the 22-year-old.

The Lawsons were traveling southbound on Interstate 65 from Elizabethtown to Bowling Green when their van was struck head-on by a northbound pickup truck driven by David McGrath, of Auburn.

According to Kentucky State Police reports, McGrath’s truck hydroplaned on the wet road, crossed the median and hit the Lawsons’ van head-on. A tractor-trailer driven by Michael Giles, of Philadelphia, Miss., then hit the passenger side of the McGrath truck. Killed in the wreck were Myra Lawson, Cassandra Lawson, David McGrath, Madeline McGrath and Megan McGrath.

Jennifer Lawson, along with her father, Dave; her fiance, Sam; her sister, Jolene and other family members turned out Wednesday for a press conference during which Gov. Steve Beshear announced a $10.8 million project that involves the addition of 33.9 miles of median cable barriers along I-65 in Bullitt, Hardin, Hart and Barren counties and 10.2 miles along the Gene Snyder Freeway in Louisville.

Jennifer Lawson was relieved to hear the news.

“That’s going to make the travel down here a lot less nerve-wracking,” she said.

Wednesday was the first time she had traveled the same stretch of highway where the wreck occurred.

“I haven’t made it down this way since,” she said.

Dave Lawson gripped the hands of his two surviving daughters when the governor made the announcement.

Traveling down I-65 Wednesday for the press conference, he said, was “scary as hell.”

The family has been advocating for the installation of median cable barriers since the wreck occurred. Dave Lawson launched a Web site, www.barriersnow.com, on which he and other family members talked about their loss and the need to get median cable barriers installed along Kentucky highways.

Having the Web site, he said, has “helped get the word out.”

He was also relieved to hear the governor’s news on Wednesday, but said he was “anticipatory” about seeing the median cable barriers installed.

“I want to see it actually happen,” he said.



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