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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.
A Stigler woman was killed in an accident about 7 p.m. Tuesday in Haskell County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.
Ginett Snow, 34, died from massive head injuries suffered in the accident about a mile west of Stigler.
Snow was a passenger in a 2012 Ford Mustang driven by Travis Russell, 24, who was not injured, the patrol reports.
No details of the accident were released pending an investigation. Snow was taken to a Stigler hospital where she was pronounced dead.