Authorities identify man killed in crash on Kansas Turnpike at 13th Street
Authorities have identified the man killed Sunday in a crash on the Kansas Turnpike as 33-year-old Josue David Elena of Kansas City, Missouri.
Elena was a passenger in a van hit by a Ford Fusion that lost control and went airborne shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday. According to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report, the car was traveling eastbound on 13th Street when its driver lost control “for an unknown reason,” causing the car to jump a curb and hit a tree and a fence.
The car slid down a ravine and hit a drainage culvert before going airborne. It landed on top of the van, which was heading southbound on the Turnpike, then rolled off and flipped onto its roof.
The 28-year-old Wichita man driving the car — Landon Scott Semsroth — and the 36-year-old Kansas City man driving the van — Rosendo Neftali Gonzalez Hernandez — were hospitalized at Wesley Medical Center with “suspected serious injuries,” the highway patrol said.
The crash was reported around mile marker 54 in Andover.
This story was originally published August 18, 2020 at 3:41 PM.
