A winter storm Sunday dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of Kansas and was blamed in accidents that took at least three lives in the southeast part of the state.

But Lawrence residents should wake up this morning with only about 3 inches on the ground.

Snow started falling in Lawrence about noon Sunday, but the brunt of the storm missed the Douglas County area. By 9 p.m., only 2 inches of snow had fallen in Lawrence, the National Weather Service in Topeka said.

In Ottawa, 2.5 inches had fallen, and between 4 inches and 5 inches had fallen near Garnett.

Nevertheless, motorists still had trouble adjusting to road conditions, and law enforcement agencies throughout the area received numerous reports of minor traffic accidents.

At least one serious accident, however, occurred about 5:30 p.m. about a mile west of Baldwin on U.S. Highway 56. A woman lost control of her 1998 Chevrolet Blazer and was ejected, the sheriff’s office said.

The Blazer went into the north ditch, crashed through a fence and came to a stop on the driver’s side. The woman, whose name hadn’t been released pending notification of relatives, was taken by ambulance to KU Med in Kansas City, Kan.

Although Eudora and Baldwin schools canceled classes today, no decision on Lawrence schools had been made by late Sunday night, a school spokeswoman said.

In the southeast part of the state, the Kansas Highway Patrol said Eugene Kenneth Wilson, 82, and Mattie W. Wilson, 81, of Galena, died about 1 p.m. when Eugene Wilson lost control of his vehicle on Kansas Highway 26 in Galena in Cherokee County.

About 15 minutes later in Woodson County, the patrol said, a wreck on U.S. 75 north of Yates Center killed Marci Lea Gray, 21, of Independence.

The storm made travel difficult and shut down highways in southern Kansas for several hours Sunday.

The Kansas Turnpike also was snowpacked despite constant plowing, but stayed open.