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Two killed inTuesday Brown Co wreck

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/05/2022

(KNZA)--A Horton woman and a 10-year-old boy were killed, and another boy was seriously injured, in a two-vehicle wreck Tuesday morning in Brown County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol said it happened shortly before 7:00 at the intersection of 170th and Goldfinch Road, about a 1/2 mile southwest of Powhattan.

According to the KHP report, a Chevy Silverado pickup truck driven by 55-year-old Rodney Lierz, of rural Powhattan, was westbound on 170th Road when he struck the passenger side of a northbound Hyundai Elantra on Goldfinch Road driven by 34-year-old Darliss Whitebird, of Horton.

Whitebird and a passenger in her vehicle, 10-year-old Herbert Whitebird, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Another passenger in her vehicle, 8-year-old Ralph Simon, of Horton, was transported to Hiawatha's Amberwell Hospital and later transferred by helicopter to Children's Mercy Hospital, in Kansas City, with suspected serious injuries.

Lierz was transported to Amberwell Hospital for the treatment of possible minor injuries.

The Patrol says all the occupants were properly restrained when the wreck occurred.

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