A Blue Springs, Missouri, man died in a traffic accident at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, on eastbound I-670, just west of Genessee Street, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report.
The location was in Kansas City, Kansas, the trooper’s report stated.
A 2014 BMW and a 2010 Freightliner semi were eastbound on I-670, the report stated.
The semi slowed to a stop for traffic ahead, and the BMW did not slow, striking the rear of the semi, according to the trooper’s report.
The driver of the BMW, James Harry Williams, 69, of Blue Springs, Missouri, was taken to a Missouri hospital, where he died, according to the report. He had not been wearing a safety restraint, according to the trooper’s report.
The driver of the Freightliner, a 35-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man, was taken to the hospital with a suspected minor injury, according to the trooper’s report.