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I-70 Accident Sends 18-Year-Old To Wichita Hospital

A two-vehicle collision on I-70 near Oakley  sent one to the hospital with disabling injuries Tuesday evening.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol around 8:55 pm, Thiet Phan, 18, of Wichita, was westbound on I-70 a mile east of Oakley when he entered the median and rolled across into the eastbound lane where he was struck head-on by an semi-truck driven by Wayne Rockenstock, 65, of Fountain, Colorado.

Phan was transported to Logan County Hospital in Oakley with disabling injuries and then transferred by Eagle Med to Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.

Rockenstock and his 43-year-old passenger, Kevin Calvert, who was asleep in the truck’s sleeper, were not injured.

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