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Kansas man dies, ejected after pickup hits a tree

FatalAccident3FRONTENAC- A Kansas man died in an accident just after midnight on Tuesday morning in Crawford County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Ford F150 driven by Bruce Hillman Hall, Jr., 26, Mulberry, was eastbound in the 500 Block of East McKay Street in Frontenac at a high rate of speed.

The pickup jumped the Kansas City Southern railroad tracks. The driver lost control of the pickup. It struck a tree and the driver was ejected.

Hall was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to First Call.

A passenger Heather Lyn Williams, 23, Mulberry, was transported to Via Christi.

They were properly restrained at the time of the collision, according to the KHP.

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