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A collision between a pair of pickup trucks left two men dead Friday night along Highway 183, just north of Hays.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said in a crash report that Jesse D. Pfannenstiel, 40, failed to stop at a stop sign as he drove a 2002 Dodge pickup west on Feedlot Road, about three miles north of I-70. A second truck – a 2004 Dodge Ram – northbound on Highway 183 struck Pfannenstiel’s truck on the driver’s door, KHP said.
A Colorado man has died in western Kansas when the car he was driving hit an embankment after a brief police chase.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says 34-year-old Gerad F. Madrid of Colorado Springs died in the crash early Thursday.
Police were seeking Madrid briefly after he was seen driving without headlights and going the wrong way on a one-way street. Officers say the car also nearly struck a patrol car. The officers pursued the car with their lights and sirens on.
Madrid was pronounced dead at the scene after the car he was in ran a stop sign and ran into a canal.