OVERBROOK, Kan. — The Kansas Highway Patrol reports an 8-year-old girl died in a three-vehicle wreck caused by icy roads in northeast Kansas.
The patrol said the collision occurred Monday on U.S. Highway 56 near Overbrook in Osage County.
The patrol reports a truck driving westbound on the highway lost control on icy roads, crossed the center line and hit a Ford pickup truck head-on, and a third vehicle rear-ended the Ford.
Cassie Ralston, of Scranton, a passenger in the Ford truck, was killed. Three other people were taken to hospitals.
The crash came as a system carrying freezing temperatures and strong winds moved across Kansas. A few thousand customers in Wichita lost power Monday morning but no other serious accidents or injuries have been reported.
