Ohio man killed near Garden Plain was driving too fast for road conditions, KHP says
Updated 5:10 p.m.: The Kansas Highway Patrol says a 33-year-old Ohio man killed in a crash on U.S. 54 near Garden Plain on Monday morning was driving too fast for road and weather conditions and slid off the highway. Authorities had issued several warnings about the possibility for icy roads on the heels of a winter storm that dropped snow over the region late last week.
Arnold Jackie Thompson III’s 2006 Toyota Tundra slid off the road, through the highway median in the 32700 block of West U.S. 54 and struck and rolled over a guardrail, according to an online Kansas Highway Patrol crash report. The truck landed on its driver’s side in the westbound lanes of the highway.
Thompson died at the scene, an emergency dispatcher said shortly after the wreck. The crash happened at 7:55 a.m. about two miles east of the Garden Plain exit. Thompson was driving eastbound on U.S. 54 when he lost control, the report says.
Thompson lives in Cadiz, Ohio, the report says. He was alone in the truck. No other vehicles were involved, and no one else was hurt.
Original story: Authorities are investigating a fatal wreck along U.S. 54 in western Sedgwick County.
A dispatcher says one person is dead. Details on the person’s identity or what led to the crash weren’t immediately available Monday morning.
The crash was reported a few minutes before 8 a.m. in the 32700 block of west U.S. 54, which is about two miles east of Garden Plain, the dispatcher said.
This is a developing news situation. Check with Kansas.com for more information as it becomes available.
This story was originally published January 13, 2020 at 9:46 AM.
