Police are still investigating the crash.
Several agencies responded due to the location and severity of the call, the post said.
Hardin County Sheriff Jon Ward's office "was trying to hide from the public that it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money to address officer wrongdoing," according to First Amendment Attorney Mike Abate.
KSP Post 5 in Campbellsville is investigating the crash.
KSP said foul play is suspected, but the investigation remains ongoing.
Ester Stevenson, of Corbin, is a white male, 6'1", 194 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Police are now waiting on toxicology and autopsy reports, and the investigation is ongoing.
The 2022 lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville, claimed Hardin County Sheriff's deputies used excessive force, lied about it and violated protocol by not having EMS take Alejandro Clarke Jr. to a hospital before he went into cardiac arrest.
KSP said the crash remains under investigation.
A missing Hart County, Kentucky, boy who was the subject of a statewide IAN Alert has been found dead.