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Wet roads responsible for numerous injury accidents

KHPWet, slick roads were responsible for over a dozen highway accidents in Kansas on Thursday.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, just before 9 p.m., twenty-five year old Kevin Sean Jewell of Kanopolis was driving a 1997 Chevy Blazer northbound, just south of K-156 on 10th road, north of Lorraine.

The vehicle entered the ditch backwards and slid into embankment, causing the vehicle to bounce and roll back into ditch.

Sarah Ann Crampton, age 32 of Ellsworth, a passenger in the Blazer was transported to the Ellsworth County Medical Center.  She was wearing a seat belt. Jewell was not.

At 5:20 p.m. on Thursday, twenty-three year old Rivera, Jose R. Rivera of Dallas, Texas was driving a 2004 Chevy passenger car southbound on I-135, ten miles South of Salina/

Rivera lost control of the vehicle and entered the center median sideways.

The vehicle then struck a guardrail and overturned, coming to rest on its top facing northeast. Rivera was transported to Salina Regional Medical Center. He was wearing a seat belt.

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