Here’s how many accidents have been reported in Wichita area in 12 hours since snow started

Sedgwick County 911 has been called 100 times for reported accidents, including three injury accidents, in roughly 12 hours after snow started falling Tuesday night.

That’s five times more calls than in the same 12-hour period the prior day.

The rain and sleet turned to mainly snow just before 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, the National Weather Service reported.

From 10 p.m. Tuesday to just about 10 a.m. Wednesday, when 5.5-plus inches of snow fell, there were 100 reports of accidents. The reports include slide-offs.

Multiple calls could have reported one accident, according to Alayna Moreno, deputy director of Sedgwick County Emergency Communications.

For comparison, the same 12-hour period the day before had 18 calls for accidents.

The 100 calls include three reports of injury accidents, all on highways. Two of the injury accidents happened Tuesday around 11 p.m. and 11:16 p.m. on I-135 at 37th Street North and then on I-35. The third was reported at 7:20 a.m. Wednesday at I-135 and South Hydraulic.

The Kansas Highway Patrol crash log details the two accidents from Tuesday night. Information on the Wednesday morning accident was not available as of 11 a.m.

In the first injury accident Tuesday night, a 21-year-old Newton woman had minor injuries after she made an “unsafe lane change” while merging from K-96 to I-135 north and hit another vehicle, a trooper wrote in the crash log.

The other accident involved a 24-year-old Dallas, Texas, man driving a semi. He complained of pain after he “lost control on the snow/slush covered road and slid into the ditch,” a trooper wrote.

Even after 10 a.m. Wednesday, slide-offs and accidents continued. There were several reports of slide-offs between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., according to 911 emergency communications scanner traffic.

This story was originally published February 2, 2022 at 11:23 AM.