Category: Traffic

A wrong-way driver on an I-70 ramp crashed into another vehicle, disabling both vehicles on Sunday night, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

A 29-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, man driving a 2011 Jeep Patriot entered the ramp from Park Drive to eastbound I-70 from the wrong direction around 11:40 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, the trooper’s report stated.

A 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer with three teenage males from Kansas City, Kansas, was exiting eastbound I-70 to Park Drive in the correct direction and attempted to avoid the Jeep, but was struck in the driver’s door, the trooper’s report stated.

The accident took off the rear side tire of the Lancer, the report stated. Both vehicles had disabling damage, according to the trooper’s report.

Two of the teens in the Lancer had no injuries, but the third, a passenger, had a possible injury and was taken to a hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, the trooper’s report stated. The driver of the Lancer was a 17-year-old male from Kansas City, Kansas.

The wrong-way driver was not injured, the report stated.