ERIE, Kan.- One person died and three were injured in an accident just before 8 a.m. on Saturday in Neosho County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Buick Rendezvous driven by Sonja Jo Ford, 37, Erie, was eastbound on 160th Road three miles north of Erie.
A 2010 Ford Focus driven by Sharon L. Rice, 57, Chanute was southbound on U.S. 59 and failed to yield at 160th Road and was struck by the Buick.
Rice was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics.
Ford and a teenager in the Buick were transported Labette County Health in Parsons. A ten-year-old boy in the Buick was transported to Children’s Mercy.
The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.