Photo Credit: Bowling Green Daily NewsBOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Two teenage cousins, one of them the son of a Paducah television news anchorman, have died in a highway crash just outside of Bowling Green.
Kentucky State Police said a car ran off a curve on a Warren County road and ran into a tree, killing both.
KSP Trooper Jonathan Biven said both occupants were wearing seat belts and speed was a contributing factor in the crash Wednesday morning, according to the Daily News in Bowling Green.
WPSD-TV in Paducah reported those killed were 19-year-old William Mallory of La Center, son of WPSD-TV morning anchorman Mike Mallory, and the driver, 18-year-old Richard Benton Page of Bowling Green.
William Mallory was an honors sophomore at the University of Kentucky.
Page was a Western Kentucky University student.
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