Background: Location where Margaret Preble was found dead (WAVE). Inset: Margaret Preble (WAVE).
Margaret “Peggy” Preble’s regular evening walk on a road near her Kentucky home turned fatal when she was apparently struck by a car at high speed.
According to WAVE, a local NBC affiliate, Preble was taking her usual walk along Highway 42 at around 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 11, something her husband Larry Preble was accustomed to. He was so used to her routine that he didn’t think too much of it until it became dark outside and she hadn’t returned.
As he told WAVE in an interview, he called her cellphone, but she didn’t answer. He checked her location by using the iPhone’s “Find My” app, which showed her phone as being “just five minutes away” from their home. He said his wife appeared to be “about 1,000 feet up the road.” He continued, saying, “I thought, ‘Oh, she’ll be home in five minutes.’ And I waited, but she didn’t come. So I got in my car and slowly drove up the street, and found her in the grass face-down.”
Larry Preble performed CPR on his wife of 48 years, and two people stopped to help him. One of them called 911, the other took over lifesaving measures on Margaret. But as Larry told WAVE, he knew it was too late, saying, “she was already cold.”
When emergency services arrived, medics told Larry Preble that “she never had a chance.” He found out later that Margaret had suffered “severe chest trauma and lung damage.” Preble also reported that he saw parts of a car “strewn for hundreds of feet up the road.” Investigators believed that Margaret was hit at a high speed and that the driver kept driving. They are still trying to find out who the driver was and have asked the public for help.
Larry Preble told WAVE, “I don’t have any feelings left for anger or for hate. Just grief. But I still can’t understand how they could do that, hit someone at that speed and then just keep going.”
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