Details released on West Seventh St. collision

Details have been released on a head-on collision from Monday afternoon on West Seventh Street that sent one driver to a Nashville hospital.

The collision report from Hopkinsville police says 26-year old Wesley Benson of Springfield, Tennessee didn’t stop at the stop sign at Princeton Road and West Seventh Street, colliding head-on with a westbound car on Seventh operated by 53-year old Willie Crenshaw of Cadiz.

Crenshaw was taken by EMS to the Jennie Stuart helipad and flown from there by Air Evac to Skyline Medical Center in Nashville for head trauma.

Benson was not injured, but was cited for not having a driver’s license.