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The Clay County Prosecutor’s Office charged a 20-year-old man with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a husband and father, whom they say he crashed into head-on Monday afternoon while speeding and drunk.
According to the probable cause statement, Joseph C. Surratt, 20, of Lee’s Summit, told a detective he doesn’t know why he was driving his 1994 Pontiac Sunbird so fast when he lost control at 102nd and Woodland at about 2:15 p.m. Monday in the Northland.
A motorcyclist died Friday after colliding with a semi-trailer truck in Kansas City.
Ronald Claibourne Jr., 29, was traveling east on East 31st Street about 11:30 a.m. when the collision occurred at Van Brunt Boulevard, according to a Kansas City police accident investigations supervisor.
“Witnesses said he was trying to get through the intersection before the light turned red,” police said of the motorcyclist.
Police have identified a man killed in a single vehicle accident on Thursday as Charles Dilley III, 37.
Police said Dilley was traveling east on NE 72nd at a high rate of speed when he failed to stop at a stop sign. Dilley’s vehicle went airborne and landed in a wooded area just east of the intersection of N. Brighton Ave. and NE 72nd Street.
Dilley was wearing a seatbelt, however, emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.
No other information has been released at this time.
A driver lost control of his or her car Thursday morning at 72nd and N. Brighton in Kansas City North Thursday morning at about 6:30 a.m., sending the car into the woods before it flipped over.
One person was killed. Police say it appears this was a single-car accident and have not yet determined or released what may have caused the driver to lose control.
The victim has not been identified.