Richard Hixon, 27, dies, one critically injured in head-on wreck on U.S. 56 near Ensign, Kansas
One killed, one injured in crash near Ensign
The Kansas Highway Patrol reports Richard Hixon of Ensign, 27, was driving east on U.S. 56 toward Ensign around 11:45 a.m. The pickup entered his lane while attempting to pass a tractor-trailer three miles west of town. The vehicles may have hit head-on.
Hixon was declared dead at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City. The pickup driver from Satanta also was taken there with critical injuries. Three other people in the pickup, including two small children, were not injured.
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