Thursday, 2 August 2012

One Killed in Two-Car Crash



An elderly man is dead following a two-car crash east of Derby in rural Sedgwick County, authorities say. The accident happened around 5:15 p.m. Sunday at 55th South and 143rd East, near Greenwich Road. Sedgwick County sheriff’s Lt. Mary Mattingly said the elderly man was driving his gold Oldsmobile eastbound on 55th Street when he ran a stop sign and collided with a maroon truck in the intersection. He died at scene, Mattingly said. The driver of the truck, a man in his 40s, was transported to Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis with minor injuries. There were no passengers in either vehicle, Mattingly said. The accident remains under investigation, she said. The identity of the elderly man has not yet been released continue

A man accused of absconding from parole was taken into custody Tuesday at a home in eastern Leavenworth County. And another man who lives at the residence was taken into custody for alleged weapons and drug violations, according to a report from the Sheriff’s Office. According to a Kansas Department of Corrections website, Reed was paroled in May from the Lansing Correctional Facility. He sentenced to prison in January for drug crimes in Johnson County. Authorities contacted Jacob R. Rettig, who lives at the home on 157th Street, because officials with the Kansas Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshals Service thought he may have been harboring Reed, according to the continue

Four people were hurt, and one was flown to a Boston hospital, when a car parked in the breakdown lane of 95 North was hit by another car whose driver may have dozed off, according to State Police. Drugs or alcohol are not believed to have been a factor, but charges may be forthcoming, pending an investigation, according to a State Police official in the Newbury barracks, which handled the 12:15 a.m. call. According to State Police, three lanes of the highway were closed, with cars only able to pass the scene in the far left lane. The road was completely closed, however, at 1 a.m. so the Med-Flight helicopter could land and transport one of the victims continue

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