Name released of fatal traffic accident victim on I-635

The victim of a fatal accident at 3:30 a.m. Friday, July 3 on I-635 four-tenths of a mile south of Parallel Parkway has been identified.

The victim was Lashonda Denice Ikerd, age 34, of Kansas City, Kansas, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

Ikerd was walking on I-635 in an unknown direction when a Jeep Compass driven by a 50-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, woman struck her, according to the trooper’s report.

The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.