Four separate car accidents on Independence Day leave four people dead.
Just after midnight on Saturday morning, four young people were traveling on a gravel road in rural Russell County, about 30 miles north of Great Bend. A passenger in the Ford F-150 21-year-old Aiden Moyer lost his hat out of the truck’s window. The 16-year-old driver pulled to the side of the road to allow Moyer to retrieve his hat. The driver then reversed the vehicle and struck Moyer, who sustained fatal injuries.
Later that morning around 5:15, two semi-trucks collided on US-54. Just west of the City of Cullison. The accident occurred when the semi driven by James Glover Jr., of Wichita, crossed the center line and struck a second big rig driven by 51-year-old Timothy Fox of Cypress, Texas. Glover was not wearing a seat belt and was fatally injured.
A third fatal accident occurred on Saturday morning just before 8am in Shawnee County when a Ford F-150 driven by 36-year-old Zachary Obrock of Topeka crossed the center line on US-24 and collided head-on with a Honda Civic driven by 85-year-old Robert Kidd of Wamego. Obrock was seriously injured and Kidd was killed in the crash.
At around 3:30 on the afternoon of July 4th, motorcyclist 29-year-old Austin Clifton of Pratt was killed when he was rear ended by a pickup truck while traveling on US-54 about 10 miles west of the City of Pratt.
