A woman from Texas was killed when the car she was riding in went off a Sumner County highway hit a culvert, rolling several times.
The crash was reported shortly before 1 p.m. Saturday on U.S. Highway 81, west of Belle Plaine. The Kansas Highway Patrol said in its online crash log that a Nissan Sentra was going south when it went off the roadway and hit a culvert, causing the vehicle to roll. The car came to rest in a tree line on the west side of the roadway.
A passenger in the car, 55-year-old Irene Vazquez De Salinas of Pharr, Texas, was dead at the scene. There were three other people in the car who had minor injuries.
