WABAUNSEE COUNTY — The Kansas Highway Patrol has identified the five people who died in an accident just after 6:30a.m. Sunday in Wabaunsee County.
The KHP reported a 2001 Ford F150 driven by Armando David Mascote, 20, Council Grove was eastbound in the westbound lanes on Interstate 70 just east of Maple Hill.
The pickup struck a westbound 1999 Ford Econoline 350 driven by Jacinto Sanchez-Diaz, 33, Topeka head-on. The pickup came to rest in the median fully engulfed in flames.
Mascote, Sanchez-Diaz and passengers in the van Jose Luis Sanchez-Diaz, 29; Francisco Daniel Rosa-Mejia, 18 and Cervando Flores, 19, all of Topeka were pronounced dead at the scene.
EMS transported Santos Narcizo Mendoza Capetillo, 37, Lillington, North Carolina, to Stormont Vail.
The occupants of the van were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol says five people died and one person was injured when two vehicles collided on Interstate 70 west of Topeka.
The KHP said the crash happened around 6:30 a.m. Sunday when a Ford F-150 pickup drove east in the westbound lanes and collided with a van near Maple Hill, Kansas.
The crash happened about 25 miles west of Topeka. The driver of the truck and four people in the van died at the scene. One other person in the van was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The names of the crash victims were not immediately released.