It was a deadly Labor Day holiday weekend in Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported seven fatal accidents from Friday through Sunday.

Just after 4 p.m. on Friday a 1999 Dodge pickup driven by Cornelius Loewen, 65, Sublette, was westbound on U.S. 56, two miles east of Ensign and struck a semi. He died at Western Plains Medical Center in Dodge City. The semi driver was not injured.

Jason B. Simpson, 42, Chetopa, died just after 7 p.m. on Friday when the Dixon lawn mower he was driving exited a yard in Labette County into the path of a pickup.

Just before 9p.m. on Friday Dawn Michelle Caruthers, 48, Baldwin City, a passenger on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, died when she and the driver of the bike Steven L. Harris, 45, Baldwin City, were ejected in a Leavenworth County accident.

On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Douglas Jay Carie, 69, Wichita, died when his Ford F150 overturned on U.S. 166 west of U.S. 75 in Chautauqua County.

Just before 4 p.m. on Saturday Ryan T. Scott, 36, Wamgeo, died after a Chevy passenger vehicle hit his Honda motorcycle on U.S. 24 just west of Goodyear Road north of Topeka. There were no other injuries reported in the 3-vehicle crash.

In Pottawatomie County Colby Scott Mathies, 27, Manhattan, died after he was ejected when his 1997 Chevy 1500 rolled on Carnahan Road just after 4 a.m. on Sunday.

In Seward County just after 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jon Steven Wiggins, 27, Dodge City, died when his SUV crossed the centerline and struck a semi on U.S. 54 one mile west of Kismet. The semi driver was not injured.

In addition to these, a Sunday accident that claimed the life of Shannon Chebultz, 45, Blaine,  in Pottawatomie County is still under investigation.

Authorities in Johnson County are also investigating the death of an 83-year-old woman who was hit by a motorcycle on Sunday in Overland Park