The Kansas Highway Patrol and Emergency responders were busy on Monday morning working dozens of accidents blamed on icy roads.
Eduiges Gonzalez-Najera, 39, Salina died just before 6:30 a.m. on Monday when he lost control of a Chevy Silverado southbound on Interstate 135 at Crawford and hit a northbound semi head-on.
In Shawnee County, a 1996 Chevy pickup driven by Hector Ramirez, 43, Topeka, was westbound on Interstate 70 at West Union Road. The driver lost control on an icy bride and the pickup rolled.
Ramirez was transported to St. Francis Medical Center in Topeka just before 6:30 a.m.
Just after 7 a.m. in Saline County, a 2008 Mercury passenger vehicle driven by Larry Alan McDaneld, 54, Salina, was westbound on Interstate 70 at 9th Street when he lost control of the vehicle and struck a Ford passenger vehicle, which was parked on the shoulder unoccupied.
McDaneld and a passenger Angel K McDaneld,15, were transported to Salina Regional Medical Center.
At about the same time, a 2000 Chevy passenger vehicle driven by Carlos E Rodriguez, 37, Wichita, was northbound on Interstate 135 at the Bridgeport exit in Saline County.
The driver lost control of the vehicle due to road conditions. The vehicle rolled multiple time and came to rest in the east ditch.
Rodriguez and passengers Brandon Truaillo, 19, and Ismael Vital, 28, Wichita, were transported to Salina Regional Medical Center. Vital was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
Just before 7:30 a.m. in Sedgwick County, a 1998 Ford SUV driven by Lanai Nakiel Sellers,17, Wichita, was on the ramp from northbound Interstate 135 to westbound U.S. 54 when she lost control and struck the KDOT bridge wall. Sellers was transported to Wesley Medical Center.
Just before 8a.m. in Lyon County, a 1996 Toyota pickup driven by Kody Wayne Comstock, 17, Beverly, was southbound on Interstate 35 two miles east of Emporia. He lost control and the pickup rolled into south ditch. Comstock was not wearing a seat belt and was transported to Newman Regional Medical Center.
In Saline County a 2009 Ford passenger vehicle driven by Donald Fortin, 59, Topeka, was westbound on Interstate 70 just west of Solomon.
The vehicle slid, went through the median, across the eastbound lanes and overturned. Fortin was transported to Salina Regional Medical Center.