BELLE PLAINE — Authorities said a tanker truck veered off the Kansas Turnpike south of Wichita and crashed, causing a powerful explosion and killing both people onboard.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said a witness saw the truck hit a guardrail before losing control Saturday afternoon about a mile north of the Belle Plaine service area.
The Wichita Eagle reported that authorities said the male driver and female co-driver were from Oklahoma. They did not release the victims’ names.
Master Trooper Joel Powers said a motorist started toward the truck to help, but the truck was already burning and it was too late. He said the truck exploded about 10 minutes after he arrived.
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Budgets_Smudgets 6 months, 2 weeks ago
for the headline writer..... I think it may be fairly construed that the tragic death of these two occurred in the wreck and fire, not in the subsequent "explosion."
Ron Holzwarth 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Perhaps you didn't notice the "By Associated Press" noted at the top of the article.
What that means is that the article was not written by a local reporter, and that the copyright is held by AP. Thus, making changes to the article because "the events could possibly have been different" might be a violation of copyright law.
Lathrup 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I got the drift of it as it was printed. The sorrow is in the loss of two lives.
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