Three people were taken to Newman Regional Health after a wreck involving two SUVs, one pulling a trailer, in Chase County on Sunday.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says the SUVs, one driven by 37-year-old Brandi McLaughlin of Bates City, Missouri, and the other driven by 51-year-old Donnell Williams of Olathe, were both in the southbound outside lane when the crash happened at mile marker 108 — almost 20 miles southwest of Emporia — just before 7:15 am. Troopers say the McLaughlin SUV was going faster than Williams’ SUV, but they also McLaughlin failed to yield and hit a trailer towed by Williams.
McLaughlin and two passengers, 17-year-old Donald Buckner of Dunlap, Tennessee, and 18-year-old Isaiah Gordon of Kansas City, Missouri, were all taken to Newman Regional Health with suspected minor injuries. Williams and a passenger, 52-year-old Victor Parker of Newton Grove, North Carolina, both suffered possible injuries but were not transported.
Traffic was constricted to one lane around the crash site for about an hour and 45 minutes.
9 am Sunday: At least one person hurt in multi-vehicle wreck on Kansas Turnpike in Chase County
Chase County Fire and Rescue took at least one person to Newman Regional Health after a crash on the Kansas Turnpike southwest of Emporia.
Early indications are three vehicles collided around 7:15 am near mile marker 108, almost 20 miles southwest of the Emporia tollgate. The circumstances behind the wreck are currently unclear, as are the number of patients taken to hospitals as a result.
Emporia Fire also responded, and initially the LifeSave helicopter was called out but was quickly canceled. Southbound traffic was constricted to one lane for a good 90 minutes after the crash.
Further details are pending through the Kansas Highway Patrol.
