The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating a fatality wreck in Osage County on Friday after several injury crashes Thursday.
Friday’s incident unfolded just after 6 pm on Topeka Avenue near Carbondale and involved a southbound vehicle on Topeka Avenue and another vehicle leaving a private drive. The vehicle leaving the private drive was turning north onto Topeka, but pulled out in front of the southbound vehicle and resulted in a drive-side collision into the north-turning vehicle.
Other details have not been released.
Meanwhile, Osage County had three injury crashes Thursday, starting with a crash on the Kansas Turnpike at mile marker 164, or almost 40 miles northeast of Emporia. Troopers say an SUV driven by 34-year-old Aaron Sarabique was southbound and veered off the highway for unlisted reasons, crashing into a semi that had broken down on the shoulder. Sarabique was taken to Stormont Vail in Topeka with suspected serious injuries, while the two people in the semi were not hurt.
Shortly before noon, two vehicles collided at 229th and Auburn Road, about a mile north of Osage City. A southbound pickup driven by 26-year-old Asa Meyer of Creighton, Montana, hit a westbound pickup driven by 38-year-old Zackary Parkin of Burlingame. Parkin and two passengers, 10-year-old Newt Parkin and Wyatt Parkin, age not listed, were all taken to Stormont Vail with suspected minor injuries. Meyer and a passenger were not hurt.
Thursday’s final injury wreck as worked by troopers happened shortly after 6:30 pm in the 300 block of North 3rd in Quenemo. A car driven by 66-year-old Michael Hutchison of Quenemo was northbound on 3rd when a pedestrian, 58-year-old Darren Hutchison, ran into the street from the west side. Michael Hutchison hit the brakes but still hit Darren Hutchison. The younger Hutchison was hospitalized at Stormont Vail with suspected serious injuries.
