A head on collision yesterday in Allen County leaves one person dead and four others injured.

Around 5:30 last night, 29-year-old Morgan Wakefield of Mound City suffered fatal injuries when his 2011 Chevy Malibu crossed the center line on US-169 and struck a Ram pickup truck head on about 6 miles south of Humboldt. The driver of the pickup 52-year-old Shawn Petterborg of Stockton, Kansas, received serious injuries and was taken to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. Three passengers in the truck – 50-year-old Angie Hale, 31-year-old Caitlyn Hale, and a juvenile female, all of Independence – suffered minor injuries and were transported to the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute for treatment.