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Child hospitalized after rear-end collision

BALDWIN- A child was injured in an accident just after 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Douglas County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Dodge Ram driven by was Jessica Leigh Beilfuss, 16, Overbrook, was traveling on U.S. 56 three miles east of Baldwin and rear ended a 1997 Econoline E150 van driven by Lori Ann Montney, 35, Baldwin City, that was stopped to turn.

A one-year old in the van was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Montney, Beilfuss, a passenger in the truck and 8 children in the van were not injured.

The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

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