FEBRUARY
12, 2015
TOPEKA, KANSAS.
(WIBW) –
A deadly
wreck shut down a stretch of U.S. Highway 75 in south Jackson Co. for much of
Wednesday night and was blamed for another wreck that injured several people,
according to Sheriff Tim Morse.
According
to the Kansas Highway Patrol just after 7:00 p.m. the driver of a red
Oldsmobile Alero was heading north on Hwy. 75 when the car collided with a
westbound Freightliner Ryder truck that was attempting to cross Hwy. 75, but
failed to yield at the stop sign.
KHP says
that the Alero's driver, 56 year-old Jacqueline Moore of Topeka, was killed in
the crash. There were two other passengers in the Alero. One passenger, 54
year-old Dwayne Anderson, was taken to Stormont Vail Hospital. The other, 50
year-old Shelli Zarazua, was not hurt.
The driver of the Ryder truck, 33 year-old Christopher Smart, also was not hurt. KHP Crash Logs said that everyone involved in the accident was wearing a seat belt.
The
Sheriff's Office also worked another incident near the Jackson-Shawnee Co.
line, south of the first wreck. According to Morse,a northbound car collided
with the back of a Dodge pick up truck. Several were hurt in that crash.
The Kansas
Department of Transportation said that all northbound lanes of Hwy. 75 at K-214
reopened at 12:45 a.m. Thursday morning.
One of the
13 News team who was covering the wrecks was involved in another crash as well
while on his way back to the station. He was not seriously hurt in the
incident.