One person dies in Saturday morning wreck near Valley Center, Kansas: official

One person died in a Saturday morning wreck near Valley Center, according to a Sedgwick County Emergency Communications supervisor.

The wreck was reported at 8:11 a.m. at 85th North and Ridge Road, which is just west of Valley Center. There are stop signs on 85th; traffic on Ridge does not have to stop.

Two people were injured in a crash reported near that intersection around 9:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office accident bulletin. That wreck happened when a driver hit a vehicle parked “partially in the ditch and in the roadway,” causing the driver of the parked vehicle and a passenger from that vehicle to be injured, a deputy wrote in the bulletin.

Other details in the fatal wreck, including the name of the victim, should be released by the sheriff’s office by Sunday.

This story was originally published April 9, 2022 at 1:59 PM.