Lenexa man killed in car vs motorcycle accident

Posted: October 15, 2014 - 12:42am
Updated: October 16, 2014 - 12:46am

Lenexa Police are investigating after a motorcycle rider was killed in a head-on crash with a car, late Tuesday night.

Police, Fire and Med-Act were called to the area of Santa Fe Trail Drive and Pflumm Road for an injury accident involving a motorcycle at 11:33 p.m..

Lenexa Fire arrived in the area to find the crash scene in the 9200 block of Santa Fe Trail Drive, in Old Town Lenexa. Firefighters confirmed a car vs motorcycle crash.

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Master Police Officer Dan Friesen says, "the car and motorcycle collided head-on resulting in the death of the motorcycle rider. The driver of the car was not injured."

Wednesday afternoon, Lenexa Police officially identified the motorcycle rider as James Michael Raupp, 25, of Lenexa, Kansas.

Raupp was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other vehicle remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation. Police say no charges are anticipated.

The Lenexa Police Department's Traffic Safety Unit continues to investigate the accident.

Santa Fe Trail Drive reopened at 6:45 a.m.

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OP man killed in early morning motorcycle crash

Posted: June 24, 2014 - 3:27am
Updated: June 24, 2014 - 11:39am

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Overland Park Police are investigating the city's first fatal traffic accident of 2014.

Police were called to an address in the 15300 block of Quivira Road around 3 a.m. Tuesday on reports of a motorcycle crashed into a retaining wall.

No one is believed to have witnessed the accident. A resident in the area found a motorcycle crashed in a driveway and the rider lying in the grass on the other side of a retaining wall.

Johnson County Med-Act arrived on scene a short time later and pronounced the man dead.

Overland Park Police have identified the rider as R. "Brock" Rodgers, 24, of Overland Park. Police say he was wearing a helmet.

Officer Gary Mason tells Operation 100 that the motorcycle is a Triumph Speed Triple.

The Overland Park Police Traffic Safety Unit believes the speed was a factor in the crash and they continue to investigate exactly what happened.

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PHOTOS: Life threatening injuries in JoCo motorcycle accident

Posted: March 8, 2014 - 12:45am
Updated: March 8, 2014 - 12:48pm

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Olathe Police are investigating an accident involving a motorcycle on Interstate 35 this morning.

Police say they were called to the scene at 11:42 Friday for an accident in the southbound lanes of the interstate, just south of Santa Fe Street.

Officers located an unresponsive 23-year-old male who was the motorcycle rider.

A news release states that initial reports indicate that the motorcycle was southbound on Interstate 35 when it struck the rear of another southbound vehicle.

The rider was transported to an area hospital with life threatening injuries. The driver of the other vehicle stopped at the scene and was not injured in the accident.

Olathe Police, with the assistance of the Kansas Highway Patrol and KDOT shut down the southbound lanes for nearly three hours as they investigated the accident.

The accident remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Olathe Police Department Traffic Unit at 913-971-7500 or 913-971-6950 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).

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One person killed in early morning motorcycle accident

Posted: July 31, 2013 - 4:22am
Updated: July 31, 2013 - 3:11pm

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The Olathe Police Department's Traffic Unit is investigating after a man was killed in a motorcycle crash this morning.

Police say the accident was reported shortly after 4 a.m., in the area of Northgate Street and South Nelson Road.

Olathe Police arrived to find one sport bike down in the roadway and a person lying in the nearby grass.

Olathe Fire and Johnson County Med-Act arrived at the scene and reported that the person was deceased.

Police say the rider is a white male in his 40's. Initial reports from Police indicate that the male was traveling northbound on Northgate when his motorcycle left the roadway near Nelson road and crashed in the median.

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

One officer from the Shawnee Police Department's Traffic Safety Unit was at the crash scene assisting with the investigation.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Police have not released the victim's name.

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One person critically injured and traffic detoured following motorcycle crash in Overland Park

Posted: August 8, 2012 - 7:53am
Updated: August 8, 2012 - 12:34pm

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Overland Park Police are investigating after a pickup truck and motorcycle collided. Police say the crash occurred at 7:38 this morning in the intersection of 102nd Terrace and Antioch Road.

Johnson County Med-Act reported the motorcyclist, a "man in his 50's", sustained critical injuries in the accident. Investigators say they believe the motorcyclist was wearing a helmet when the accident occurred. The other driver did not report being injured.

Northbound lanes of Antioch Road were closed at 103rd Street and only one lane of southbound Antioch Road is currently getting past the scene. Antioch was reopened to normal traffic about 90 minutes after the accident occurred.

Police say they continue to investigate the accident, and have no other information to release.

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