Weekend wreck closes section of Highway 69 for over four hours
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PITTSBURG, Kan. On Saturday, May 1 at roughly 9 p.m. a vehicle traveling northbound on Highway 69 near the Bourbon County/Crawford County line struck a car heading southbound, according to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Driving a 2008 Chevrolet Malibu, John Murphy, 57 of Joplin, crossed the middle line of the highway and struck a Freightliner truck towing a 2007 CIMC trailer. The truck was driven by Martin Richards, 59 of Benton, Arkansas. Richards had no apparent injuries.
Murphy had three other passengers in his car including Irene Burton, 33, of Fort Scott, and two children under the age of 5, according to the KHP. Murphy and Burton were the only two involved injured in the crash, and notably were also the only two not wearing seatbelts according to the report. Murphy and Burton were transported to Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsb
No suspect apprehended yet in Mulberry shooting
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PITTSBURG, Kan. A man was shot Sunday afternoon in Mulberry, and while his injuries were not life-threatening, a suspect had not been identified or apprehended and the circumstances surrounding the shooting remained unclear Monday morning.
The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office announced on Facebook late Sunday that it had received a call earlier in the afternoon reporting that someone had been shot, and responding deputies located the victim, identified as 22-year-old Tyler Rose, in the roadway on Highland Street south of Perry Street in Mulberry with a gunshot wound to the lower leg.
While unrelated to truck crashes, K-7 weight limit may be helping prevent them
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CRAWFORD COUNTY, Kan. 40-year-old Adrian Espinosa of Kansas City, Kansas was headed northbound on Highway K-7 just north of W. 700th Avenue last Monday afternoon, near Farlington, when he drifted off the roadway, over-corrected, and rolled the semi he was driving. He was transported to Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg for treatment of suspected serious injuries, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
While there have been significantly fewer of them in 2021 than there had been at this time last year, semi crashes on the treacherous stretch of K-7 north of Girard, where the road has no shoulder, are not a new development. Rather they are a familiar source of frustration for county officials who have found themselves largely powerless to do anything to alleviate the problem.