The victim of a fatal accident on Wednesday, Oct. 4, in the 500 block of Washington Boulevard has been identified, according to a police spokesman.
The victim was Francisco Granados, 29, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, police said.
Police responded to the accident around 6:06 p.m. Oct. 4 and found a silver sport utility vehicle that hit a gold sedan.
An initial investigation found that the SUV was occupied by two males in their 40s traveling southbound on Fifth Street at a high rate of speed when they struck the gold sedan, police said. The sedan was westbound on Washington Boulevard.
Granados, the driver of the sedan, was ejected from the vehicle and was dead at the accident scene, according to police.
The two persons in the silver SUV were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The accident is being investigated by the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Traffic Support Unit-Critical Collision Response Team.