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Construction Zone Accident Injures Four

A six-car accident in a construction zone injured four in Ford County Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, at around 1:50, vehicles were stopped for a flagman in a construction zone in the eastbound lanes on US-50 near Spearville when John Borgstrom, 56, of Windom, failed to stop for traffic. Borgstrum’s 2010 Freightliner first struck the stopped pickup of Rodney Williamson, 68, of Satanta, which started a chain reaction that ultimately led to collisions with four other vehicles stopped in the construction zone.

Borgrstrom and the drivers of three of the other vehicles involved, Cristina Rosales, Nadia Richard, and Richard Thompson, were transported to Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City with disabling injuries.

Williamson was not injured in the accident, nor were the occupants of the sixth vehicle, Harlow Sherman and Paul Brodigan of Arizona.

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