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KHP: 2 hospitalized after accidents on icy Kansas roads

Icy Kansas highways on Monday
Icy Kansas highways on Monday

HARVEY COUNTY- Slick roads are responsible for numerous accident across the state on Monday.

One person was injured in an accident just after 9a.m. in Harvey County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Chevy passenger car driven by Elizabeth Ann Ourecky, 28, Garland, TX., was southbound on Interstate 135 just north of the Kansas 15 Junction.

The driver lost control of the car due to the ice.

It traveled through the median into the northbound lane and was hit by a northbound Peterbilt semi.

Ourecky was transported to Wesley Medical Center. The semi driver Scott Alan Heslop, 50, Park City was not injured.

Just before 9 a.m., a 2003 Chevy Van driven by Marlon Amaya, 41,Wichita, was northbound on Interstate 35 four miles north of Waverly.

The driver lost control of vehicle on the ice-covered roadway,

It entered the ditch on the south shoulder and overturned.

A passenger in the van Ricardo Adan Garcia, 35, Honduras, was transported to Ransom Memorial Hospital. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.

Amaya and another passenger were not injured.

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