Jan 22, 2023

2 hospitalized after crash on snow-packed I-70

Posted Jan 22, 2023 3:00 PM

TREGO COUNTY — Two people were injured in an accident just before 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Trego County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2017 Jeep Renegade driven by Eric Gregory Grove, 36, Valley Spring, Arkansas, was westbound on Interstate 70 two miles east of U.S. 283.

The driver lost control due to snow-packed and icy road conditions and struck a guardrail.

EMS transported Grove and a passenger Floy Lynelle Cabrera, 52, Valley Spring, Arkansas, to the Trego County Hospital. Both were properly restrained, according to the KHP.