A Kansas City, Kansas, man died in an accident at 4:50 p.m. Thursday, March 1, on U.S. 69 near 399th Street in Miami County, Kansas.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report, the victim was James R. Carr, 53, of Kansas City, Kansas.
He was northbound on U.S. 69 in the right lane when, for an unknown reason, his 2003 Ford Taurus went off the roadway and struck a bridge pillar head-on, according to the trooper’s report.
Carr was a 1983 graduate of Bishop Ward High School who worked for J&J Seamless Guttering in Kansas City, Kansas. Funeral service information is available on the Porter Funeral Home website at https://www.porterfuneralhome.com/obituary-detail.php?obituary_id=58822.