5 dead: Semi crash kills one adult, three children, one teen on I-435 in Kansas City, Missouri
Posted
9:54 pm, December 27, 2014, by Molly Balkenbush
and Kasey Babbitt
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Four people are dead, including three children, following an accident involving a semi-truck on I-435 and Eastwood Trafficway Saturday night. Another person is in critical condition.
Due to the accident, the interstate was closed down for several hours on Saturday night.
Police say the vehicle was pulled over on the side of the interstate, and a semi-truck was traveling southbound on and hit the vehicle from behind. Five people were in that vehicle.
Police say the one surviving person, who was inside the vehicle during the crash, is at an area hospital in critical condition.
They say two of the children died at the scene, the other child and adult died at the hospital.
Police say for some time they weren’t even sure what kind of car was involved in the accident because it was buried under the semi-truck.
“It’s pretty catastrophic were looking at it we just were now able to get it freed from underneath the tractor trailer and were taking a look at it right now but it wasn’t immediately apparent what kind,” said Sgt. Bill Mahoney with the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.
Police say the driver of that tractor trailer is unharmed. They were getting a statement from him and gathering evidence at the scene on Saturday night.
The identities of the four people killed have not yet been released.
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Police identify five killed in Saturday night
semi crash on I-435
Posted 9:54 pm, December 27, 2014, by Molly Balkenbush,
Kasey Babbitt and Megan Dillard, Updated at 06:27am, December 29,
2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Five people are dead, including three
children and one teen, following an accident involving a semi-truck on I-435
and Eastwood Trafficway Saturday night.
Due to the accident, the interstate was closed down for
several hours on Saturday night.
Police say the vehicle was stopped in the outer most
southbound lane of the interstate, and a semi-truck was traveling southbound
struck the vehicle from behind. Five people were in that vehicle.
Police say the one person originally reported as
surviving, 17-year-old Dominque Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri, who was
inside the vehicle during the crash and was transported to the hospital in
critical condition, died late Saturday at the hospital.
They say two of the children, seven-month-old Taeshawn
Hutchison and two-year-old JaRiah Hutchison, died at the scene, the other
child, one-year-old JaNijah Hutchison, and an adult, 24-year-old Shante
Hopkins, who was the mother of the children, died at the hospital.
Police say for some time they weren’t even sure what
kind of car was involved in the accident because it was buried under the
semi-truck.
“It’s pretty catastrophic were looking at it we just
were now able to get it freed from underneath the tractor trailer and were
taking a look at it right now but it wasn’t immediately apparent what kind,”
said Sgt. Bill Mahoney with the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department.
Police say the driver of that tractor trailer is
unharmed. They were getting a statement from him and gathering evidence at the
scene on Saturday night.