A 54-year-old Lansing, Kansas, man died in a traffic accident this morning with a truck on southbound K-7 at Marxen Road, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.
Dennis W. Wagner died as a result of injuries in the accident at 6:35 a.m., the report stated.
A truck hauling logs was turning left onto Marxen Road from southbound K-7 when Wagner’s vehicle, a 2006 Chevrolet passenger car, struck it in the rear, the trooper’s report stated.
The trooper’s report stated that Wagner was not wearing a seat belt. According to the trooper’s report, the accident occurred in Wyandotte County. It was close to the Wyandotte-Leavenworth county line.
The driver of the Freightliner truck, a 29-year-old man from Cameron, Missouri, was not injured, according to the report.