On an icy winter morning in Kansas, Missouri, a woman’s vehicle was dragged eight miles on a road after becoming entangled beneath a truck.
NBC says that around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, police in Leawood, Kansas received reports that a truck traveling westbound on Interstate 435 (I-435) was dragging a silver Kia under the edge of its trailer.
According to reports, Captain Brad Robbins informed local media that he believed the truck was passing through a green light when the southbound Kia ran a red light and collided with the trailer’s rear wheels.
Multiple automobiles are captured on film flashing their lights to alert the truck driver. After around eight miles, he stopped. The Kia driver, a 28-year-old man from Kansas City, was hospitalized but has already been discharged.
The accident caused severe damage to the vehicle.
The Kia driver, a 28-year-old man from Kansas City, was hospitalized but has already been discharged.
Multiple automobiles are captured on film flashing their lights to alert the truck driver. After around eight miles, he stopped.
One photograph depicts the front of the car severely damaged and trapped beneath the truck along the roadside in the rain.
Two police officers were dispatched to the ‘unknown collision’, and according to police audio obtained by the local newspaper The Kansas City Star, dispatchers were told by witnesses that they ‘believe someone is inside the vehicle that is caught below the truck’
According to The Star, ambulance and fire crews also responded but were initially unable to locate the driver’s pulse.
When the driver regained consciousness, she reported being in severe agony.
The next day, two people were killed in a collision near the same road. Overland Police reported that two automobiles crashed, with one striking a cement barrier and flipping multiple times after leaving I-435.
NBC says that around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, Leawood, Kansas, police received reports that a truck traveling westbound on Interstate 435 (I-435) was dragging a silver Kia under the edge of its trailer.
According to reports, Captain Brad Robbins informed local media that he believed the truck was passing through a green light when the southbound Kia ran a red light and collided with the trailer’s rear wheels.
Two police officers were dispatched to the ‘unknown collision’, and according to police audio obtained by the local newspaper The Kansas City Star, dispatchers were told that individuals ‘believe someone is inside the vehicle that is caught underneath the truck’
At the scene, both persons were pronounced deceased.
The police suspect the car’s attempt to change lanes on route 69 caused the collision.
In February of last year, a 13-year-old girl was died after being dragged for miles by a carjacker who stole her family’s SUV from a restaurant parking lot in Wichita, Kansas.
The unidentified youngster, according to police, became entangled in her seat belt while attempting to flee the vehicle.
Kevin Palmer, 34, was charged with criminal murder in connection with the girl’s death.
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