Lee’s Summit police examine early morning accident, death

Police in Lee’s Summit, Mo., are investigating an early-morning accident and the death of the car’s driver.

Authorites say they were called to an accident scene near Blue Parkway and Colbern Road around 6:00 a.m. Friday. They found a car in the grass on the side of the road.

The driver, 80-year-old Andrew Casey of Independence, was declared dead at the scene. But police say it’s possible Casey suffered a medical emergency that caused the accident, and may have died of that emergency and not the crash.

“The vehicle did strike a raised curb and a small sign as it left the roadway, but it is not believed that those impacts would have been fatal,” the department’s news release said.

This story was originally published July 3, 2015 at 11:57 AM with the headline "Lee’s Summit police examine early morning accident, death."