A five vehicle I-70 crash in Sherman County sent five people to the hospital on Thursday. 

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol Eighty one year old Frank N. Lewis of Linn Valley, Kansas was driving a 2002 Chevy Monte Carlo east and merging into the construction zone on I-70, 8 miles east of Kanorado.

The Monte Carlo pulled in front of a 2006 Ford truck driven by Dustin Lee Bragg, age 29 of Wichita.  The Ford truck rear-ended the Monte Carlo. The truck crossed into the west-bound lane, striking a 2003 Buick Century driven by Demarys E. Cooper age 74 of Imperial, Nebraska.

The Monte Carlo crossed into the west-bound lane and hit a 2001 Chrysler Jeep Liberty driven by Marie C. Jeffries-Farquhar age 21 of Longmont, Colorado and a 2013 Buick Le Sabre  driven by Brett E. Johnson age 52 of Chenoa, Illinois.

The Ford truck came to rest in the median. The other vehicles came to rest in the north ditch.

Lewis and a passenger in the Monte Carlo, Ursula Lewis age 74 of Linn Valley, were transported to the hospital in Goodland.

Jeffries-Farquhar, Cooper, Johnson and a passenger in the Le Sabre were transported to the hospital in Burlington, Colorado.