A 32-year-old Independence, Missouri, woman died in a wrong-way auto accident at 10:48 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, on southbound I-35 at K-68, east of Ottawa, Kansas.
The woman was a passenger in a Chevrolet Suburban driven by an 18-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report. The driver of the Suburban was injured and was taken to a hospital, the report stated.
According to the trooper’s report, the two persons in the Suburban were not wearing safety restraints.
The Suburban was northbound in the southbound lanes of I-35, the trooper’s report stated. The Suburban struck a Chevrolet Impala head-on that was southbound in the southbound lanes, according to the trooper’s report.
The driver of the Impala, a 20-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, woman, was injured and taken to a hospital. Also injured in the Impala was a 20-year-old woman from Kansas City, Missouri; another 20-year-old woman from Kansas City, Missouri; and a 21-year-old woman from Kansas City, Kansas, according to the trooper’s report.
The occupants of the Impala were wearing seat belts.