Victim in wrong-way crash on I-35 is identified as 34-year-old Johnson County man
The Kansas Highway Patrol has released the name of the driver killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 35 in Johnson County early Saturday morning.
He was identified as 34-year-old Andrew Hixson, of Mission.
Trooper Tiffany Bush, a spokeswoman for the highway patrol, said a wrong-way driver on I-35 struck another vehicle about 2:48 a.m. near 67th Street in Merriam.
A motorist called to report a vehicle heading southbound in the northbound lanes before Lenexa police reported the crash.
The wrong-way driver, who was in a 2008 Infinity, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to the patrol’s crash report.
Hixson, who was in a 2016 Volkswagen Jetta, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Neither driver was wearing a seat belt.
Cortlynn Stark
The Kansas City Star