SEDGWICK COUNTY -Freezing rain and slick roads are blamed for several accidents across the state on Friday.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported the driver of a Suzuki SUV lost control of the vehicle on northbound Interstate 235 at the Kansas 42 just before 12:30 a.m. on Friday. The SUV entered the median and struck an unoccupied pickup from a previous accident.
A passenger in the Suzuki Franics L. Little, 52, Derby, was transported to St. Francis Medical Center.
Just after 6:45 a.m. a 2000 Ford Ranger pickup driven by Emery Ray Caudill, 63, Winfield, was southbound on U.S. 77 just north of the Cowley County line.
The driver lost control of the pickup on an icy bridge and overturned. Caudill was transported to William Newton Memorial Hospital.
Just before 9 a.m., a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder was westbound on Kansas 68 two miles west of Ottawa.
The driver lost control on an icy bridge and the vehicle overturned.
A passenger in the Nissan Myranda Love Romero, 20, Pomona, was transported to Ransom Memorial Hospital.
Luis Vaquera-Pimentel, 40 and a passenger Silvia Vaquera-Pimentel, 42, both of Santa Fe, NM., were transported to the hospital in Russell just before 9 a.m. on Friday after their Dodge pickup rolled into the south ditch on Interstate 70 eight miles west of Russell.
Just after 9a.m. a semi was westbound on Kansas 254 five miles east of Wichita. The driver Cemone Felton, 40, Wichita lost control on icy roadway. The truck went off the right side of roadway and rolled over. Felton was transported to Wesley Medical Center.
Just after 1p.m. a GMC Sierra 2500 was southbound on Interstate 235 at the Kansas 42 in Sedgwick County.
The driver Carlos A. Garcia-Perez,30, Wichita, changed lanes and lost control of the truck. It went down an embankment and rolled. Garcia-Perez and a passenger Julian G. Ramirez, 30, Dodge City, were transported to Wesley Medical Center.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for sections of central and southern Kansas through early Saturday. The weather service says up to a quarter inch of sleet and ice are forecast by late Friday night.