GEARY COUNTY – One person was injured in an accident just after 11 a.m. on Friday in Geary County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2017 Volvo semi driven by Ta K. Ku, 30, New Britain, CT, was westbound on Interstate 70 seven miles east of Junction City.
The semi struck the car trailer of a 1997 Dodge Ram driven by Allan J Guatemala-Osejo, 32, Ogden.
One person getting into the vehicle Abraham E. Berry, 21, Lamonte, MO., was hit up the impact.
Berry was transported to the hospital in Manhattan.
There were no other injuries. The drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
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Garry Berges, Geary County Emergency Management Director confirmed to JC Post just after 1:30 pm that all four lanes of Interstate 70 both east and westbound have reopened to traffic.
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Law enforcement authorities continue to work a two vehicle accident on Interstate east of Grandview Plaza. Eastbound traffic is moving slowly in one lane. One semi-truck pulling a trailer with new pickups went across the media west to east and is stopped on the edge of the eastbound lanes.Another pickup has gone off the north side of I-70 down an incline.
TRY TO AVOID THE AREA IF YOU CAN AND TAKE AN ALTERNATIVE ROUTE OF TRAVEL.
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Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf confirmed that law enforcement received a call just after 11:00 am that a semi-truck was headed westbound on I-70 and encountered a pickup truck that was pulled over just west of the 303 exit to Manhattan. Wolf said that the semi struck the pickup truck which then “shot down onto the north side of the highway and the semi grazed off the pickup and went into the median.” The semi driver did come to rest on the eastbound side of Interstate 70.
Traffic has been reduced to one lane on both Eastbound and Westbound I-70 through the area. Wolf confirmed there has been at least one injury, he could not say at this time how severe.
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There has been a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 east of Grandview Plaza.
Law enforcement dispatch has confirmed one of the westbound lanes near mile marker 301 has been closed. Traffic has been slowed. Avoid that area if you can.
