Two people were injured in an I-70 rollover accident on Saturday. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, “Twenty-two year old Amber Nicole Vasey of Fredrick, Colorado was driving a Toyota Tacoma eastbound on I-70 at mile post 207 when it drifted off of the left side of the roadway, into the median.

Vasey over-corrected the vehicle to the right, then back to the left, causing it to roll. She was trapped in the vehicle and was extricated by the Wilson Fire Department.  She was transported to a Wichita hospital. A passenger in the vehicle, George Christopher Gilbert, age 24, of Fredrick, Colorado was transported to Ellsworth Medical Center. Both were wearing seat belts.”

On Monday, July 8, a road construction project to resurface K-18 in Rooks County is set to begin.
The 21 mile project begins at the Graham County line and extends east to the U.S. 183 Junction.
The scope includes a ¾-inch mill and 1-1/2 inch overlay of new asphalt material.
This job also includes a 1-½” mill and inlay of U.S. 183 from the south city limits of Plainville north to the K-18 Junction.
During construction flaggers and a pilot car operation will guide one-lane traffic through the work zone during daylight hours. Delays of 15 minutes or less should be expected through the construction time frame. The public should plan their travels accordingly. KDOT urges drivers to pay attention to the signs and workers within a construction zone. Slow down and “Give ‘Em A Brake!”
KDOT awarded the construction contract – totaling $1,896,644 – to APAC Kansas Inc., of Hays.
The only subcontractor on the job is Dustrol Inc., of Towanda, who will perform the milling.
This highway project is funded by T-WORKS, the Transportation program passed by the Kansas Legislature in May of 2010; and designed to create jobs, preserve highway infrastructure, and spur economic development opportunities across the state.
Weather permitting, the work should be complete by early August.

Schools are out and accident risks are higher for children now that summer’s here.

Child safety advocates say emergency room visits and accidental deaths for children under the age of 15 spike between May and August. Jennifer Hoekstra with Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., says nearly 40 percent of all injury-related emergency room visits and deaths happen during those months.

Drowning and motor vehicle accidents are two of the top causes, while suffocation, poisoning and falls are also common.

The organization Safe Kids World Wide says more than 9,000 children die each years from injuries suffered in such incidents each year.

Hoekstra says precautions, such as helmets for children riding bicycles, skateboards and scooters, and adult supervision are essential to keeping safe during summertime play.

A Rice County man was injured in a Barton County accident on Saturday. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol,  ”Thirty year old Jesse A. Thurman of Lyons was driving a1997 Chevy Cavalier Northbound on SE 105th Avenue, south of Ellinwood. Thurman drove across the Southbound lanes and the vehicle entered the West ditch and struck a concrete culvert. He was transported to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was wearing a seat belt.”

(AP) — A roadrunner at Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City has been euthanized after an apparent beating.

A visitor reported that something was wrong with one of the birds in the aviary on June 26. General curator and deputy director Kristi Newland said the roadrunner was then transported to the zoo’s vet clinic.

Newland discussed what happened in a column published Friday. She said staff determined that bird needed to be euthanized because of “malicious trauma suspected to be from a member of the public.”

Garden City Police Department Capt. Michael Reagle says it appears the bird, named Elmer, was kicked or stomped on, or something was used to beat it.

Reagle says no suspects have been identified.

AP) — Wichita police say a 49-year-old man has died after being struck by two vehicles while crossing a road with a horse and a 6-year-old boy.

The first vehicle fled after the collision. The second vehicle struck after two bystanders ran to the aid of the man, the child and the horse.

Wichita police Sgt. Jeff Davis says the bystanders were in serious condition at the time of the collision. The 6-year-old was in critical condition. All three were hospitalized.

The horse was reportedly euthanized.

The name of the victim wasn’t immediately released.

 

5:30 p.m.  (AP) — An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others.

San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said more than 60 passengers were also unaccounted for. She said it wasn’t immediately clear where they were, but she said they weren’t all presumed dead at this time. She said at least 48 people were initially transported from the scene to area hospitals.

She said the investigation has been turned over to the FBI. Terrorism has been ruled out.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Flight 214 crashed while landing before noon PDT. Television footage showed the top of the fuselage was burned away and the entire tail was gone.

2 p.m. Saturday Boeing 777 from South Korea crashes upon landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.  According to witnesses, the plane’s tail came off  as it approached the runway.

 

(AP) — A 29-year-old Wichita man has drowned while trying to retrieve a boat at El Dorado Lake.

Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says a dive team used sonar equipment to find the man’s body about 6:30 p.m. Friday. The man’s body was found about 100 feet from the shore in water almost 20 feet deep.

The man’s name wasn’t immediately released.

Herzet said the man apparently stepped off an underwater ledge into deep water when he went to retrieve a boat that had drifted from the shore. The man wasn’t wearing a life jacket and apparently couldn’t swim well. The man never made it to the boat.

The man and his family had been camping at the lake with his boss and his boss’s wife.

 

(AP) — Prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a lengthy prison sentence against a Kansas State University student who set a blaze that killed a university researcher.

They’re urging U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson to sentence Patrick Martin Scahill to 40 years in prison on Monday.

Federal sentencing guidelines recommend 27 to 33 years. The defense, meanwhile, is pleading for a shorter sentence. His attorney cites his client’s remorse and acceptance of responsibility.

But prosecutors say igniting gasoline at an occupied apartment complex is monstrous.

Scahill and Virginia Amanda Griese pleaded guilty in April to setting the February fire to create a diversion that would prevent police from finding narcotics. The fire killed Vasanta Pallem, a 34-year-old postdoctoral researcher in chemical engineering.