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Missouri man dies in Kansas Turnpike crash near Emporia

Missouri man dies in Kansas Turnpike crash near Emporia

Missouri man dies in Kansas Turnpike crash near Emporia

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The Kansas Highway Patrol said a Missouri man was killed Monday night in a crash involving two semis on the Kansas Turnpike in Lyon County.

The crash was reported shortly after 10 p.m.   A northbound semi drifted onto the shoulder and hit another semi that had stopped.

The driver of the first semi, 35-year-old Yuriy Lendel of Nixa, Missouri, was pronounced dead at the scene.   The driver of the parked semi, a 28-year-old Houston, Texas man, was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

 

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