When traffic slowed on eastbound I-70 on Thursday, Jan. 18, east of the Turner Diagonal, a four-vehicle crash was reported.
According to the Kansas Turnpike Authority, the crash at 7:55 a.m. occurred when a Ford F-150 made an avoidance maneuver to the inside shoulder to keep from hitting slow traffic ahead.
The Ford pickup truck then collided with the inside barrier wall and traveled back across the inside lane, colliding with a Ford Escape, the trooper’s report stated.
A Hyundai Santa Fe then made an avoidance maneuver to avoid colliding with the Ford pickup truck and Ford Escape, according to the trooper’s report. Then the Hyundai collided with a Plymouth Voyager in the outside lane, the report stated.
No injuries were reported, according to the trooper’s report. Temperatures that Thursday morning were below freezing.