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A 34-year-old Wichita woman died Friday afternoon when her convertible rolled into a ditch on K-254 near Southwest Tawakoni Road, east of Benton.

Maria L. Rodriguez was westbound on the highway when her 2006 Ford Mustang drifted off the pavement and into the grassy center median at 2:48 p.m., a Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper said.

“She definitely over-corrected, reacted to that, and then shot back across the two westbound lanes and went into the ditch on the north side of the highway,” police said.