SHAWNEE COUNTY—The family and friends of two children injured in a one-vehicle crash on Father's Day have established an online fundraiser to assist with paying the extensive medical bills.
Just after 8:30 p.m. June 20, police responded to a rollover accident in the 5200 block of Southwest Burlingame Road in rural Shawnee County, according to Deputy Abigail Christian.
The 2005 Volkswagen Jetta driven by the children's father Jimmy D. Landis, 36, Topeka, was northbound on SW Burlingame Road when it left the roadway to the east, struck a culvert and came to rest upside-down, facing southbound, in the ditch.
EMS transported Landis and two juvenile passengers identified on GoFundMe as Zoey and Zackory Landis to the hospital with serious injuries.
Zackory was sent to Stormont Vail with bumps and bruises, then released on Tuesday. Zoey was airlifted from Stormont Vail to Children's Mercy in KC with spinal injuries.
On Tuesday, she had surgery to put plates and pins in her top vertebrae to retain movement in her arms. Her other spinal injury is inoperable, which will leave her unable to walk, according to GoFundMe
Police later arrested Jimmy Landis and booked him into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges of aggravated battery, aggravated child endangerment, battery of a law enforcement officer, interference with medical personnel, interference with law enforcement, child restraint violations, driving under the influence and driving while suspended.
The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office asks that anyone who may have stopped and assisted with this incident, prior to the arrival of first responders, or anyone with information please call.