Feb 25, 2021

2 hospitalized after car strikes semi, overturns on I-70

Posted Feb 25, 2021 3:00 AM

GOVE COUNTY—Two people were injured in an accident just after 4p.m. Wednesday in Gove County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2010 Kia Forte driven by Justin A. Holden, 27, Denver was westbound on Interstate 70 a mile and one half from Castle Rock Road.

The Kia struck a westbound 2015 Freightliner semi driven by  Abdi, Mohamed O. Abdi, 47, Stone Mountain Georgia, and overturned. 

EMS transported Holden and a passenger in the Kia Paige M.  Buchanan-Hall, 26, Denver, to Gove County Medical Center.  Abdi was not injured. All three were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.