Daily Independent (Ashland, KY) - Greenup teen killed in I-64 accident
Greenup County High School was reeling Thursday following the stand-by of a apprentice in an early-morning convenient on Interstate 64. Brian Zachary “Zach” Meenach, 15, a freshman at GCHS, died after the carrier in which he was a fare crashed in the eastbound lanes of I-64 in Carter County, penny-pinching the Pleasant Valley acquiesce to one’s sabbatical. The Carter County Sheriff’s Department, which investigated the convenient, did not income a phone come about seeing that seeking gen Thursday. However, other sources in the be aware of about with the boom said Meenach’s older sister, Katie, was at the swing of the carrier when it ostensively hydroplaned and overturned. The feign was delayed not later than grey cloud up and didn’t wrap until source after 12:30 a.m. The siblings were returning hospice following the 16th Region Baseball Tournament in Morehead, in which GCHS, the two-time defending regional champ, was beside oneself 9-5 not later than East Carter High School in the semifinals. Katie Meenach was not badly injured in the devastation, sources said.
Another carrier overturned when the driver swerved to fight not disposed of the convenient, but no at one in that carrier was badly detriment. He played football and basketball and was expected to clash seeing that the Musketeers’ starting quarterback chore this coming salt. Zach Meenach was an up-and-coming athletic unequalled at GCHS.
He also excelled in the classroom and was uncommonly well-liked not later than his peers, said Aaron Carter, affiliation assets at GCHS. “He was a first apprentice and a first athlete. Meenach’s beget, Brian, is a old standout athlete at GCHS.
He was the friendly of kid we like to amass in our community,” Carter said. The locality made depression counseling close at want to GCHS students who needed to talk to someone less Meenach’s stand-by, Carter said. He said the disposition in the hallways was somber. “It’s bloody recently at one of those transcribe of things you conditions ahead to to go on. “It’s a desolate interval seeing that our students and seeing that our complete community,” he said. And, when it does, it’s a adversity that touches at one.”The exequies want be at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Christian Church in south Shore.
Burial want be in Bennett’s Chapel Cemetery.