(KAIR)--A Leavenworth man is dead, killed Sunday night in a two-vehicle Leavenworth County crash.
Dead is 40-year-old Eric Lee Chappell who the Kansas Highway Patrol reports was riding a motorcycle westbound in the 18000 block of Eisenhower Road, about 6 miles west of Lansing.
The Patrol reports that Chappell's Suzuki was struck by an eastbound Jeep Renegade that went left of center, at a high rate of speed.
The Jeep was driven by 19-year-old Eric Lee Karpierz, of Lansing. He and his passenger, 17-year-old David Davis, Jr., both escaped injury.
According to KHP, the fatal wreck occurred shortly after 9:00 Sunday night.
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