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Teens hospitalized after car hit by semi

Screen Shot 2014-07-03 at 5.13.15 AMNEWTON, Kan. -A Hutchinson teenager is in critical condition and another has non-life-threatening injuries after their car was broadsided by a semitrailer in Harvey County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported the accident happened just before 6 p.m. Wednesday evening on U.S. Highway 50 two miles north of Halstead.

The driver of a 2000 Pontiac Jade M. Pepper-Hachenberger, 18, passed several vehicles and attempted to make a U-turn. A semi hit the car while it was turning around.

Pepper-Hachenberger was flown to a Wichita hospital in critical condition.

Another passenger Irsa N. Alvarado, 17, was taken to a Newton hospital.

Syleesa Andrade,18, was uninjured.

The semi driver was not injured. No charges were reported.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

 

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