Wichita police identify 2 motorcyclists who died in separate accidents on Kellogg
Wichita police have identified two people who died in separate crashes Saturday on eastbound Kellogg.
The first accident happened shortly before 2 a.m. in the 6600 block of east Kellogg, near Kellogg and Armour. Justin Cunningham, 38, of Andover, died at the scene, police spokesman Trevor Macy said in a news release.
The initial accident call came as a single vehicle that had rolled over on the eastbound lanes of Kellogg with two people in the vehicle; a 48-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, Macy said.
Investigators say the driver, the 48-year-old woman, had lost control of the silver SUV and struck a median. A 19-year-old woman who witnessed the rollover crash stopped to help the occupants in the SUV. Cunningham, who had a 44-year-old woman passenger on his bike, was heading east on Kellogg when the motorcycle struck the 19-year-old, then the SUV, Macy said.
The 44- and 48-year-old women were taken to the hospital with serious injuries; the 19-year-old woman struck by the motorcycle was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, Macy said.
The second crash happened hours later shortly before 9:30 a.m. Police identified Adam Higgins, 40, of Hutchinson as the man who died in the 6000 block of east Kellogg.
One lane of traffic on the three-lane Kellogg highway had been opened when the second collision happened. Macy said Higgins was heading 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 black Chevy truck, was ejected from the motorcycle and then run over by the driver of the Chevy, Macy says.
Higgins was taken to a hospital where he died. A 42-year-old woman driving the truck was not injured, Macy said.
The deaths were the 17th and 18th fatalities of the year, Macy said.
This story was originally published May 16, 2022 at 2:54 PM.