A Cumberland County couple was killed in a one vehicle accident in Metcalfe County Tuesday afternoon, July 12. The accident occurred about one mile east of Beaumont on Hwy. 90.

According to the Metcalfe County Sheriff’s Office, Frank Fishback, 70, of Burkesville, was operating a 2006 Ford F250 pickup truck on the wet roadway when he lost control and struck a rock wall and overturned several times. Both Fishback and one of his passengers, Jannie Fishback, 67, of Burkesville, was pronounced dead at the scene by Metcalfe County Coroner Larry Wilson.

A second passenger in the vehicle, Kirt Morgan, age 3, of Glasgow, was transported to T.J. Samson Community Hospital where he was treated and later released.