Police released the names of three persons who died in a traffic crash at 10:25 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, near 14th and Metropolitan Avenue.
The three are Steven Gelhart, 45; Joe Bosquez, 29; and Destiny Gregory, 31, according to police.
According to a preliminary investigation, a silver van went off the road and came to rest upside down on railroad tracks to the north of Metropolitan.
The van was traveling northbound on 14th Street when it ran off the road and landed upside down on the tracks, police stated. Four persons were in the van. One male survived the crash.
The crash is under investigation by the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Traffic Support Unit-Critical Collision Response Team.