Man killed in Kellogg wreck after traffic backed up from earlier fatal crash: police

A man died in a wreck Saturday morning on Kellogg after traffic was backed up from an earlier crash that left one person dead and three others injured, Wichita police spokesman Trevor Macy said.

One lane of traffic on the three-lane highway had been opened up when the second collision occurred just before 9:30 a.m.

Macy said a 40-year-old man on a motorcycle was traveling east on Kellogg and on the off-ramp toward Woodlawn when he tried to merge back onto Kellogg. He hit the front passenger side of a truck, was ejected from the motorcycle and then run over by the driver of the truck.

He was taken to an area hospital where he later died. The 42-year-old woman driving the truck was not injured.

The earlier wreck happened just before 2 a.m. on eastbound Kellogg near Armour. It involved an SUV, a teenager who tried to help the help occupants of the SUV and a motorcycle that hit the teen and the SUV. The driver of the motorcycle died. The teen suffered life-threatening injuries. The SUV driver and a woman on the motorcycle both were taken to an area hospital with serious injuries.

All three lanes of Kellogg reopened around 10:45 a.m.

This was the 16th fatal wreck and 18th fatality of the year, Macy said.