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The fatal crash happened about two miles south of Stillwater. Driver 62-year-old Dwight Handley Jr. of Belle Plaine, Kan. was pronounced deceased at the scene. Handley was the driver of a freightliner, and the other vehicle was a 2007 Peterbilt driven by 31-year-old Jesse Brownlee, of Wellington, Kansas. Brownlee's vehicle was parked on the shoulder of NB Interstate 35 when Handley was traveling in the NB lane of I-35. He collided with the Peterbilt and caught fire, which caused the cargo tank to explode.