Jul 04, 2020

Update: Second pedestrian dies on same Kansas highway Friday

Posted Jul 04, 2020 8:00 AM

WYANDOTTE COUNTY —One person died in an accident just after 10p.m. Friday in Wyandotte County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Chevy Cobalt driven by  Edwin T. Fritz, 49, Olathe, was northbound on Interstate 635 in the middle lane and struck a pedestrian identified as Frank E. Clark III, 49, Kansas City, Kansas, who was running across the roadway.

EMS transported Clark to KU Medical Center where he died. Fritz was not injured and properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

This was Friday's second fatal pedestrian accident on Interstate 635 in Wyandotte County. 

The KHP reported a Jeep struck a Kansas woman walking in the number two lane south of Parallel Avenue at 3:30a.m.   Lashonda Denice  Ikerd, 34, Kansas City, Kansas, was pronounced dead at the scene. 

-------

WYANDOTTE COUNTY —One person died in an accident just after 10p.m. Friday in Wyandotte County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a vehicle was northbound on Interstate 635 in the middle lane and struck a pedestrian that was running across the roadway.

The KHP has not released the identity of the driver or the pedestrian.

This was Friday's second fatal pedestrian accident on Interstate 635 in Wyandotte County. 

The KHP reported a Jeep struck a Kansas woman walking in the number two lane south of Parallel Avenue at 3:30a.m.   Lashonda Denice  Ikerd, 34, Kansas City, Kansas, was pronounced dead at the scene.