High-speed Paoli Pike crash leads to OWI arrest

By MATT THACKER
Matt.Thacker@newsandtribune.com

June 20, 2009 01:34 am

— A 31-year-old from Floyds Knobs was arrested for drunken driving after he reportedly hit a vehicle while driving at a high rate of speed.
Adam Farnsley was booked-in to the Floyd County Jail on charges of operating while intoxicated resulting in bodily injury, operating while intoxicated and reckless driving.
Floyd County Detective Capt. Jeff Topping said Officer Rodney Clark clocked Farnsley driving up the hill on Paoli Pike at 65 mph at about 7 a.m. The speed limit is 30 mph. Clark turned his vehicle around and pursued the suspect.
“The guy evidently wouldn’t let up,” Topping said. “Rodney said he couldn’t prove the guy was running from him so he didn’t charge him with that.”
Farnsley’s vehicle allegedly went around a curve and struck another vehicle head-on, which caused the other vehicle to roll over. A 16-year-old driver was taken to Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services and was treated and released.
Police have not released the victim’s name.
Victim in interstate accident in stable condition
A 30-year-old pregnant woman was listed in stable condition Friday afternoon at University Hospital in Louisville — a day after a wreck on Interstate 64.
Kelly Baxter, of New Albany, was trapped inside her Ford Escape for 31 minutes as rescue workers tried to remove her, according to police. Two children were pulled from the vehicle and had minor injuries.
Topping said the vehicle was smashed between a semitruck and a rock wall near mile marker 120 on I-64 eastbound. Baxter reportedly lost control of the vehicle and spun out before hitting a guardrail and being hit by the truck.