One person dead after vehicle rolls off bridge in KCK, police say
One person was killed after their vehicle rolled off a bridge on the 18th Street Expressway in Kansas City, Kansas, Thursday evening, police said.
Police were called to investigate the crash on the highway near Kansas Avenue around 6:10 p.m.
Officer Jonathon Westbrook, a Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department spokesman, said the initial investigation suggests that an SUV was traveling south on the highway when it left the roadway and rolled off a bridge.
The driver, who was the only person in the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police later identified the driver as 25-year-old Leroy Richardson.
The cause of the wreck remains under investigation by the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Traffic Support Unit/Critical Collision Response Team.
This story was originally published September 19, 2019 at 8:56 PM.
