Teenage driver injured after crash on I-70

A single-vehicle crash on I-70 on Jan. 1 sent an 18-year-old driver to the hospital.

A Chevy S-10 truck was westbound on I-70 near Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., about 1:21 p.m. when the driver failed to negotiate a sharp bend in the road, causing the vehicle to strike the right barrier wall, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

The driver, an 18-year-old man from Overland Park, Kan., was injured and taken to a hospital, according to the trooper’s report.