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An Elizabethtown woman suffered an apparent medical emergency and crashed her car into a home near Lincoln Trail Elementary School Friday.

“At approximately 11:04 a.m. this morning, we received a report of a motor vehicle accident in the 5200 block of Bardstown Road,” said Hardin County Sheriff John Ward. “It was called in as a one-vehicle injury accident. Somebody had run off the right side of the roadway, striking a home.”

Ward said deputies arrived on scene and discovered that an 88-year-old female from Elizabethtown “had a diabetic emergency and blacked out, went off the right side of the roadway, striking the chimney of a home and doing minor damage to the home.”

The driver of the vehicle was transported to Baptist Health Hardin by ground transportation. Air Ambulance was initially called to the scene but the helicopter was canceled.

Ward did not have an update on the driver’s condition as of Friday afternoon. The sheriff said no other injuries resulted from the vehicle collision.

Hardin County Schools noted on social media that the accident did not impact Lincoln Trail Elementary School.

Emergency crews were dispatched to the Meade County Solid Waste and Recycle Center in Brandenburg late Friday night due to a reported structure fire. 

The Meade County Fire District says crews arrived on scene at around 10:15 p.m. on December 1 and found an open side structure fully engulfed in flames.

Meade County Solid Waste Coordinator Jacob Butler said the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but because of the quick work of responding firefighters the damage from the fire was contained.

“We are very, very fortunate that the fire was not spread to our main building, so the way it’s looking we will resume normal operational hours around 10 or 11 o’clock Monday morning,” Butler said.

No injuries were reported as a result of the fire. Butler said finished recycling bales had been moved out of the older structure that caught fire.

“We didn’t really lose a lot of our equipment, but unfortunately we did lose our glass pulverizer, so at this time we’re probably going to stop accepting glass from the public and other vendors,” Butler said. “We have no way of processing it.”

Hardin County Public Works Director Stephanie Givens said she does not believe the fire will impact recycling collection for Hardin County.

(Photo Source: Meade County Fiscal Court)