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An 85-year-old woman was killed Tuesday in a three-vehicle crash in south-central Kansas, authorities said.
The accident occurred at 8:05 a.m. on K-14 highway, about eight miles south of Hutchinson.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu was westbound on Arlington Road, failed to yield at the stop sign at K-14 highway and pulled in front of 2001 Ford Explorer, which was southbound on K-14.
After the Chevroleet and Ford collided, the Ford then struck a Ford F-350 pickup truck that was stopped at the stop sign on eastbound Arlington Road.
A traffic accident on K-61 five miles north of Pratt left two people in their 70s dead Friday morning.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said Halstead residents Ronald J. Werner, 75, and Kathleen L. Werner, 73, were heading south on the highway in a 2004 Ford Taurus when a northbound truck crossed the center line about 10 a.m. The truck, a 2008 Chevrolet Avalanche, crossed far enough over that it slammed into the car on its passenger side, Trooper Mark Crump said by phone, and flipped on its roof.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says blowing dust caused an accident that killed a man in central Kansas.
Brandon H. Stein, 30, of Great Bend, died Monday afternoon in an accident on U.S. 56 about seven miles west of Great Bend.
The patrol said Stein’s vehicle collided with the trailer of a semi-trailer truck that had stopped in the eastbound lanes of the highway because of visibility problems caused by the dust and other accidents.
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 46-year-old Marion man was killed Monday morning when he crashed into the back of a semi-trailer truck on U.S. 56 near Hillsboro, the Kansas Highway Patrol reported.
Gary Alleven was driving east on U.S. 56 at about 6:15 a.m. Monday when his Ford Fiesta struck the back of a semi-trailer truck that had turned into westbound lanes at Jade Road slightly more than a mile east of Hillsboro, according to the highway patrol. He died at the scene.
The driver of the semi, 25-year-old Samuel Unruh of Canton, was not injured.