A pair of wrecks on the Kansas Turnpike during Saturday’s storm activity led to reported injuries.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a wreck around 8:20 pm near mile marker 97, just southwest of the Matfield Green service exit, sent two people to Susan B Allen Hospital in El Dorado for treatment. The driver, 44-year-old Quincy Norris of Peoria, Illinois, was southbound when he lost control of his car due to the wet highway. The car hit the center barrier wall.
Norris was taken to the hospital with suspected minor injuries, but a passenger, 63-year-old Wanda White of Broadview, Kansas, went to the hospital with suspected serious injuries. Both were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.
A separate wreck almost 12 hours earlier and between the Matfield Green service exit and the Flint Hills Cattle Pens exit led to possible injuries for the driver, Indradeep Bhadra of Wichita. She was not taken to the hospital afterward.
