Man dies, woman hurt when tow truck collides with sedan at Kansas highway junction
One man died and a woman was seriously injured when a tow truck struck a sedan Tuesday in southeast Kansas.
Joseph Monroe Reed, 79, of Vinita, Oklahoma, died at the scene of the accident, Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs show.
The crash was reported at 11:52 a.m. at the junction of U.S. 166 and Kansas 26, which is south of the city of Galena in Cherokee County.
Monroe was eastbound on U.S. 166 in a 2007 Volkswagen Jetta when he stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of U.S. 166 and K-26. He began crossing K-26, failing to yield to a tow truck that was heading south on K-26, according to the crash report.
The tow truck struck the Jetta on the driver’s side.
Reed’s passenger, a 73-year-old Miami, Oklahoma woman, was taken to Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Missouri with serious injuries, the patrol said.
The driver of the tow truck, a 23-year-old Missouri man, was not injured. He was towing a 2010 Nissan Frontier pickup truck at the time of the accident.