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Friday wreck injures three south of Atchison

By Brian Hagen

07/21/2023

Kansas Highway Patrol

(KAIR)--A late Friday afternoon, two vehicle, Atchison County crash, just a mile south of the Atchison City limits, on U.S. Highway 73, required hospital treatment for three of the involved, with two suffering serious injuries.

According to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, everyone was buckled up at the time of the wreck.

Injured was 32-year-old Mississippi resident Matthew Hughes, whose northbound Dodge Challenger, according to the KHP report, crossed the center line, where it struck a southbound BMW SUV.

Hughes was transported to Saint Joseph, Missouri's Mosaic Healthcare with what the report calls a "suspected serious injury."

The Leavenworth County driver of the BMW, 51-year-old Tonganoxie resident Heather Smith, suffered the same, and was transported for care at the University of Kansas Hospital, in Kansas City, Kansas.

Smith's passenger, 62-year-old Gary Smith, also of Tonganoxie, incurred what the KHP calls a "suspected minor injury," and was transported for treatment at Amberwell Atchison.

According to the KHP report, the crash happened shortly before 4:25 Friday afternoon.

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