Three women were injured when the vehicle they were riding in crashed and rolled onto its top late Saturday night in Downtown Lawrence. Lawrence Police and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews were called to the intersection of 13th Street and Massachusetts Street, just before midnight, where they found a vehicle on its roof. Radio traffic from the scene indicates none of the injured women were wearing ...
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office tried to stop a vehicle which allegedly committed several traffic violations shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday. The driver of the silver Nissan Versa refused to stop for officers and accelerated to nearly 90 miles per hour while southbound East 2200 Road, south of Eudora. Radio traffic indicates deputies pursued the vehicle south to North One Road, or the Franklin County border, ...
Updated story - March 12 — DUI suspected in weekend crash in west Lawrence The Lawrence Police Department is investigating after a sport utility vehicle was found crashed in the ditch near Trail Road and South Folks Road early Sunday morning. Police arrived on scene around 4:45 a.m. and reported the red SUV was crashed about 30 feet off the road. Radio traffic from officers indicated the driver, only ...
Updated at 12:20 p.m. on Sunday A 20-year old Kansas City, Kan. man was arrested early Sunday morning after a Lawrence police officer attempted to make a traffic stop in North Lawrence, which led to a high speed chase. The officer attempted to stop a maroon 2014 Dodge Avenger in the area of North Second Street and North Street around 1:30 a.m. The driver of the car refused to stop and accelerated towards the ...
UPDATED STORY - Eudora police rescue man from house fire that started with cigarette dropped on mattress; home had no smoke alarms A fire in a Eudora home displaced three adults and one child early Monday morning. Eudora police and firefighters were dispatched to the two-story house at 918 Church Street at 12:56 a.m. A resident of the home called 911 reporting a fire in a bedroom. Police officers were on ...
One person was taken by ambulance to a Kansas City area hospital after a rollover crash early Wednesday. First responders were dispatched about 3:20 a.m. to the 3800 block of Greenway Circle in eastern Lawrence. According to Lt. Lyle Hagenbuch of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, two vehicles were racing northbound in the 1400 block of East 1750 Road. One of the vehicles was unable to stop at the ...