New Details Emerge After Fiery Crash
02/15/2016

Kansas Highway Patrol

(KAIR)--Apparent confusion over who was who at the time of a fiery wreck last month caused the driver of the vehicle to be identified incorrectly.  

The Kansas Highway Patrol, in an initial online report, stated that a Horton man was behind the wheel of a Chevy Camaro that wrecked in Smith County, Kansas during the early morning hours of January 16th. 

However, that report has since been revised, placing 19-year-old Connor Waser as a passenger in the car, while 22-year-old Tyler Harnett, of Hoisington, Kansas, is listed as the driver. 

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the mix-up occurred in the aftermath of the wreck, with the two men initially misidentified while undergoing emergency room treatment for their injuries.  

Details of the wreck itself remain unchanged, with the revised, initial report stating it happened a mile north of the Osborne/Smith County line. 

With Harnett now named as the driver, the Patrol says he was northbound on  K-181 and had just passed a vehicle when the Camaro went onto the right shoulder of the road. Harnett overcorrected, sending the car across the road and into the west ditch where it struck a driveway and rolled, colliding with a tree row and catching on fire. 

Both men were transported for hospitalized treatment; and, while Harnett's current status isn't immediately known, Waser has returned to Horton where he continues to recover from his injuries. 

The Patrol says he was buckled up when the wreck happened shortly before 2:30 on the that early Saturday morning, but Harnett was not. 


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