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Two injured in crash during police pursuit

By Greg Bebermeyer

02/28/2025

Kansas Highway Patrol

(KNZA)--Two Leavenworth County residents were injured Thursday afternoon after the motorcycle they were on collided with another vehicle during a police pursuit in north Lawrence.

According to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, a southbound motorcycle driven by 26-year-old Dillon Herken, of Easton, was being pursued by law enforcement on North 2nd Street . Herken made a lane change and rear-ended a SUV.

Herken and his passenger, 27-year-old Leavenworth resident Brooke Hislar, were both transported to a Topeka hospital for the treatment of suspected serious injuries.

The Patrol says the pair were wearing helmets when the crash occurred around 3:15.

The driver of the SUV, 70-year-old Oskaloosa resident Marsha Neilson, and her 17-year-old passenger, from Independence, Missouri, were not hurt.

Details surrounding what lead to the pursuit were not immediately available.

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