Rainfall was apparently a reason behind two injury crashes in the KVOE listening area Saturday.
The first crash happened around 8 am on the Kansas Turnpike at mile marker 92, 35 miles southwest of Emporia. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 25-year-old Kassandra Gonzalez of Edinburg, Texas, was southbound and driving too fast for the weather conditions. Gonzalez lost control of her pickup truck, which hit the center barrier wall and then went across the highway into a ditch. She was taken to the St. Francis Hospital Wichita campus with suspected minor injuries.
The second crash happened just after 9 am on the Kansas Turnpike about a mile north of the Admire exit. The Highway Patrol says 69-year-old Manuel Estrada of Jamaica, Iowa, was driving a pickup southbound when he lost control on the wet highway and hit the center barrier wall. Estrada and a passenger, 70-year-old Elida Longoria-Estrada of Des Moines, Iowa, were taken to Newman Regional Health with suspected minor injuries.
All three crash victims were wearing seatbelts.
