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Cheyanne Olivia Higgins, 18, killed and two injured in single-vehicle rollover car crash on Stagg Hill Road in Manhattan, Kansas

Date: 
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Area: 
Topeka, KS

An 18-year-old Junction City woman died and two people were injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash Saturday afternoon in Manhattan. Cheyanne Olivia Higgins was pronounced deceased at the crash site on Stagg Hill Road. The driver was listed in stable condition Sunday at Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. A male passenger was transported to Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka, but there is no word on his current condition.

Brian F. Benson, 43, killed in car accident at K-99 and Road L junction near Emporia, Kansas

Date: 
Monday, April 20, 2015
Area: 
Topeka, KS

A 43-year-old Topeka man, Brian F. Benson, died early Monday in a single-vehicle, rollover accident in Lyon County, Kansas. Lyon County sheriff’s Deputy Steve Dall found Benson in his black, 1998 Ford Escort car on its top at the junction of K-99 and Road L, just north of Emporia. Benson was found unconscious and with no pulse still in the driver’s seat wearing his seat belt. 

Ronald E. Stump Jr., 35, killed and Wesley A. Peters, 33, and Kayleen J. Notter, 26, injured in single-vehicle car crash on Laurel Canyon Road in Geary County, Kansas

Date: 
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Area: 
Topeka, KS

The fatal crash occurred at 6:15 a.m. Sunday at 7000 Laurel Canyon Road, when a 2015 Chevrolet Malibu was southbound on Laurel Canyon Road when it drove off the end of the roadway at a dead end. The car then rolled and came to rest on its top. The car’s driver, Ronald E. Stump Jr., 35, of Bellville, was pronounced deceased at the crash site. Both passengers, Wesley A. Peters, 33, of Belleville, and Kayleen J. Notter, 26, of Belllview, were transported to Geary Community Hospital in Junction City. 

Hunter Levi Terrell, 17, dies and Carolanne Todd, 26, Erika Josling, 7, Teagan Josling, 1, Harlee Todd, 1, Jeremiah Copp, 6, and Blayne Josling, 10, injured in car accident on K-16

Date: 
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Area: 
Topeka, KS
A 17-year-old McLouth teenager was killed Saturday in a two-vehicle crash in Jefferson County. The collision happened about 4:30 p.m. on K-16 highway just east of Oskaloosa. The teenager, identified as Hunter Levi Terrell, 17, was driving west when he lost control of his vehicle as he passed another car. Terrell was re-entering his lane after passing the pickup when he lost control of his Honda Civic, skidded broadside and was struck by an eastbound Chevrolet Suburban. Terrell was killed in the collision.

William A. Rabas, 64, and Delores L. Rabas, 56, killed, and Darin C. Martin, 44, and Sarah M. Martin, 31, injured in accident at K-14 and K-156 junction near Ellsworth, Kansas

Date: 
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Area: 
Wichita-Hutchinson, KS Plus
Two people were killed Sunday night in a two-vehicle crash in Ellsworth County. Two passengers in the Durango died in the crash. William A. Rabas, 64, and Delores L. Rabas, 56, both of Russell, were pronounced dead at the scene. Neither was wearing a seat belt. 

Timothy P. Schartz, 64, and Misty R. Chalker, 41, killed in head-on crash on U-59 in Labette County, Kansas

Date: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Area: 
Joplin, MO-Pittsburg, KS
Two Labette County residents died in a head-on collision Wednesday morning, south of Parsons. The Kansas Highway Patrol said that vehicles driven by Timothy P. Schartz, 64, and Misty R. Chalker, 41, crashed shortly before 9 a.m. along U-59, about 4 miles north of the highway’s junction with U-160. Schartz’s 2011 GMC Terrain SUV was northbound on the highway when it crossed the center line for “unknown reasons” and struck Chalker’s 2013 Ford Fusion, KHP said in a crash report; Chalker was southbound on U-59 at the time. Schartz was a resident of Altamont, KHP said. Chalker lived in Parsons.