Automobile Accidents

• 4 Killed in Car Accidents as Snow Storm Rolls across Plains

  Christina Cole | January 23, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsWichita, KS

  A winter storm rolled across the Plains states on Saturday and with it caused several car accidents that killed at least four people within two states.Heavy snow hit western and central Kansas, limiting visibility and creating hazardous driving conditions.A couple and their 20-month-old daughter were killed when their car drove off U.S. 50 and collided with two other cars, said authorities. The...

• Accident at Deadly Intersection

  Christina Cole | January 05, 2007 2:34 AM | 0 CommentsWichita, KS

  Two people escaped serious injury in a car accident this morning at U.S. 54 ands 215th Street in Goddard - the very same intersection which a 26-year-old man was killed at just last night.A woman was heading west on U.S. 54, attempting to turn onto southbound 215th, Police Chief George Bloesing said. A man that was driving east on U.S. 54 hit her car, veered into a ditch and crashed into a...

• Two Die in Collision near Independence

  Christina Cole | December 13, 2006 1:07 AM | 0 CommentsWichita, KS

  On Monday, two Cherryvale residents were killed in a car-semi collision east of Independence in Montgomery County. Gerald Steffen, 75 and Jeanette Steffen 68, were dead at the scene of the 1 p.m. accident, reported the Kansas Highway patrol. The report said Gerald Steffen was driving a 1996 Nissan pickup truck east on US-160 highway when he failed to stop at a stop sign and drove into the path...