photo by: Douglas County Sheriff's Office

A Douglas County Sheriff's Office vehicle is pictured in January 2022.

The person who died in an accident involving a pickup truck and a farm combine was Abraham Blanco, 28, of Overland Park, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

Blanco was driving a Dodge Ram pickup truck southbound in the 500 block of East 1100 Road after 4 p.m. on Saturday when he veered into oncoming traffic and struck a northbound John Deere combine, according to a preliminary investigation by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, said George Diepenbrock, spokesperson for the office. Blanco was pronounced dead at the scene.

Blanco’s passenger was a 5-year-old boy who was transported by ambulance to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, with injuries not believed to be life threatening.

The driver of the combine was a 54-year-old rural Baldwin City man who removed the boy from the truck after the accident. The Baldwin City man suffered injuries but was not transported from the scene, Diepenbrock said.

A full investigation is being conducted by the sheriff’s office accident reconstruction team.