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Monday, April 21, 2014

PHOTOS: Two injured in head-on accident

Posted: April 21, 2014 - 12:42pm
Updated: April 21, 2014 - 1:58pm

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Two people were injured when two vehicles crashed head-on in Shawnee late Monday morning.

Emergency crews were called to the westbound Shawnee Mission Parkway ramp to Maurer Road around 11:40 a.m..

Firefighters arrived to report two vehicles with heavy damage.

Johnson County Med-Act transported two people from the scene. One with serious injuries, the other with minor injuries.

Police say the Honda Accord was traveling the wrong way on the exit ramp and struck the Chevrolet Silverado head-on.

Major Bill Hisle says, "Luckily they were on the ramp so they were not at highway speeds."

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Man critical after truck hits tree

Posted: April 21, 2014 - 2:27am
Updated: April 21, 2014 - 7:46am

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A man was critically injured when his pickup truck slammed into a tree and caught fire early Monday.

The accident was reported just after 2 a.m., on 79th Street east of Belinder Avenue in Prairie Village.

Johnson County Med-Act arrived to report the truck was on its side with very heavy damage and one person trapped inside.

A resident of the area tells Operation 100 News that the driver appeared to be a man in his 20's.

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The injured man was transported to the University of Kansas Hospital in critical condition. His injuries are said to include serious trauma and first-degree burns to his upper body.

Prairie Village Police have called for assistance from the Shawnee Police Department's Traffic Safety Unit for accident investigation.

Dispatchers say 79th Street will remain closed between Belinder and Booth until officers complete the on-scene accident investigation.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

PHOTO: One rescued from two-alarm house fire

Posted: April 18, 2014 - 7:15am
Updated: April 18, 2014 - 7:49am

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Olathe firefighters have rescued a woman from inside her burning home.

Firefighters were called to the address in the 2000 block of E. Mohawk Drive shortly before 7 a.m..

Initial reports indicated that two people were trapped inside.

Olathe Fire Department Captain Mike Hall says one woman was rescued from the home by firefighters. A man and the family dog were both able to get out on their own.

Both residents are said to have very minor injuries.

Crews battled heavy fire and requested a second alarm response, as the fire spread into the attic of the two story home. A Battalion Chief at the scene reports that ammunition stored inside the home was firing off due to the heat of the fire.

A total of three Johnson County Med-Act ambulances were called to the scene.

Firefighters from the Overland Park fire department are also on the scene assisting.

A neighbor tells Operation 100 News that Johnson County Med-Act is at the home frequently for various different reasons.

The Red Cross has been called to assist the three adults who were displaced by the fire.

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

PHOTOS: Early-morning fire causes $250,000 damage

Posted: April 12, 2014 - 1:01am
Updated: April 12, 2014 - 2:26pm

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Firefighters from three area departments worked to extinguish a house fire early Saturday.

Emergency crews were called to the home in the 5500 block of Roundtree Street around 12:50 a.m.

Police were first on the scene and reported heavy fire from the garage of the home.

The residents of the home, two adults and a child, were able to escape the burning home uninjured.

Fire crews knocked down most of the fire from the outside, before making their way inside to check for and extinguish additional fire.

The fire was reported under control around 1:10 a.m. and out at 1:40 a.m..

Shawnee fire marshal Corey Sands says the resident had recently stained the home's deck and placed the oil soaked rags in the trash can in the garage. The fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of those oily rags.

Firefighters from the Lenexa Fire Department and Olathe Fire Department assisted on the initial call.

Firefighters returned to extinguish hot spots around 9 a.m..
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Shawnee firefighters returned to the home around 9 a.m. to extinguish a few hot spots which had flared up in the garage. Those flames were spotted by a construction crew that was working to board up the home's damaged windows.

Damage is estimated at $250,000.

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Man in critical condition after being struck on K-10

Posted: April 12, 2014 - 12:42am
Updated: April 12, 2014 - 2:12am

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The Kansas Highway Patrol says a man who stopped to help a stalled motorist, is now in critical condition after being struck on Kansas Highway 10.

The accident occurred in the westbound lanes of K-10 just west of K-7 in Olathe around 8:30 p.m..

Johnson County Med-Act transported the man to an area hospital with critical injuries.

Troopers say the injured man was driving westbound on the highway when he found a car stalled in the right lane of the highway. The man decided to help and parked his car on the right shoulder.

As the man was trying to assist the stalled driver, a third vehicle struck the man and the stalled vehicle.

The westbound lanes remained closed until around 12:30 a.m. Saturday as the Kansas Highway Patrol's Critical Highway Accident Response Team worked to map the incident scene.

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Friday, April 11, 2014

PHOTOS: Numerous vehicles damaged in overnight vandalism spree

Posted: April 11, 2014 - 4:52am
Updated: April 11, 2014 - 8:03am

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Olathe Police say approximately 45 vehicles were damaged by vandals sometime overnight in Olathe.

Four of those vehicles were damaged in front of Tara Polca's home. She said both of her neighbor's have damaged vehicles as well.

Before 7 a.m. Friday, damaged vehicles could be seen on both sides of each street hit. Some of the damaged vehicles were parked in driveways, only feet from windows on the homes.

Police say they have not heard of any damage to homes.

The damage was first reported around 4:15 a.m., in the 1200 block of E. Johnston Street when a resident stepped outside to find their vehicle's window shattered and called police. Arriving officers found at least four vehicles on the street with damaged windows.

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Just a few minutes later, officers were called to the 700 block of N. Mahaffie Street on reports of at least six vehicles with damaged windows.

Officers began checking surrounding streets and located at least four more vehicles with damage in the 700 block of N. Sunset Street.

Police believe the damage was done by someone with a BB gun. Officers say nothing has been reported stolen from any of the vandalized vehicles.

Anyone with information regarding these incidents is asked to call Olathe Police at 913-782-0720.

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Lawrence woman killed in rural Douglas County accident

Posted: April 11, 2014 - 2:49am
Updated: April 11, 2014 - 11:18am

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Deputies say a 68-year-old Lawrence woman died at the scene of a single vehicle accident in rural Douglas County early Friday.

Douglas County Sheriff's Office Lt. Steve Lewis tells my reporting partners at the Lawrence Journal-World, deputies responding on the crash just before 2 a.m. and discovered the woman's body about 30 yards from a wrecked 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

The accident occurred in the 600 block of 
U.S. Highway 56, near the unincorporated community of Globe.

Deputies believe the vehicle was traveling westbound at high speed and went into the north ditch for unknown reasons.

The car then struck a pasture driveway and went airborne, about 20 feet in the air, tearing down a power line. The driver was ejected through the passenger window as the car flipped end over end. The woman was the only occupant of the car and was not wearing a seatbelt.



The accident was reported by a passerby who spotted the car crashed off of the highway.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

PHOTOS: Lenexa man injured when car clips Shawnee home, hits tree

Posted: April 7, 2014 - 1:37am
Updated: April 7, 2014 - 12:50pm
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A 32-year-old Lenexa man was injured Monday morning when he lost control of his vehicle along Blackfish Parkway and brushed against a house before colliding head-on with a tree, authorities said.

The accident occurred around 12:40 a.m. as Matthew Thomas Leeper was traveling west on Blackfish Parkway near Pflumm Road. Leeper's Lexus sedan jumped a curb and drove through a yard on the south side of Blackfish, narrowly missing a wooden privacy fence.

Tire marks in the grass show the car then crossed both lanes of Blackfish to the north side grass, where it ricocheted off of a ground level electrical transformer, plowed through two sides of a wooden privacy fence, scraped along the side of a home's foundation and struck a tree.

Officers at the scene said Leeper was transported to an area hospital with a serious head injury.

No residents were injured and the home that the car struck did not sustain any structural damage.

Shawnee firefighters stood by with the damaged ground transformer until KCP&L could arrive to survey the damage. Several large wires could be seen sticking out of the ground.
A firefighter at the scene said this is the third single car accident that he can remember responding to on the same stretch of Blackfish Parkway. He said the home on the northeast corner of Summit Street and Blackfish Parkway has been struck at least once and another home near the corner of Blackfish Parkway and Pflumm Road was struck in December 2011.
The home involved in the 2011 accident is the same address where the vehicle involved in Monday's accident first left the roadway, narrowly missing the privacy fence. A report, with photos, on the 2011 accident can be found here.

In 2012, a vehicle crashed through a privacy fence of a home at Blackfish Parkway and Park Street. The residents of another home on Blackfish Parkway have replaced their mailbox at least twice due to vehicles leaving the road and crashing into it.
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