Close to 10 injury crashes were reported just in Lyon County during Sunday’s blizzard. Information has been released on three of those wrecks.
Shortly before 10 am, one vehicle crashed in the 1000 block of Road 80 near Olpe. Crash details are still pending, but Deputy Zach Shafer says one person suffered minor injuries and did not need a hospital stay afterward.
Several injury crashes were reported on the Kansas Turnpike from Emporia to Matfield Green. One developed near mile marker 106 shortly after 10 am. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 58-year-old Mitzi Weir of Oklahoma City was southbound and lost control of her SUV in wintry driving conditions. Her SUV then hit the center barrier wall before a southbound car driven by 19-year-old Corie Ivanuska of Kansas City, Kan., hit it. Weir was listed as hurt, but the crash log does not list whether she was hospitalized. Ivanuska was not hurt.
Another crash happened at mile marker 124, three miles southwest of the Emporia gate, shortly before 6 pm. The Highway Patrol says 20-year-old Christopher Lyon was driving a pickup northbound but lost control, spinning in the middle of the highway before facing southbound. Meanwhile, 43-year-old Ricky Price of Douglas was also northbound and couldn’t avoid a head-on crash. Lyon was taken to Newman Regional Health for treatment. Price was not hurt.
Lyon County Sheriff Jeff Cope says deputies worked four injury crashes and nearly 50 non-injury crashes Sunday.
