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Wed wreck claims life in Jackson County

By Brian Hagen

09/18/2024

(KAIR)--A late Wednesday morning Jackson County crash, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 75 and 190th Road, claimed the life of a Topeka man while leaving an Effingham woman seriously injured.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse, in a release, says his office received a report of the crash just before 11:15 Wednesday morning, with deputies responding to the crash site.

When they arrived, deputies learned that a passenger van, northbound on the highway, was struck by a pickup truck.

The Kansas Highway Patrol, overseeing the investigation, identifies the driver of the truck as 16-year-old Wyatt Shields, of Holton, with the KHP's report stating he was eastbound, crossing the highway on 190th Road, when he failed to yield, pulling into the path of the van, causing the two vehicles to collide.

Dead is 52-year-old Scott Reaka, who was a passenger in the van, driven by 26-year-old Effingham resident Allison Lee. Lee suffered what the KHP calls "a suspected serious injury," and was, according to Morse, flown by LifeStar to the University of Kansas Hospital, in Kansas City, Kansas, after she was extricated from the van's wreckage.

Shields was not injured.

According to the KHP report, everyone involved was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the fatal Wednesday morning wreck.

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