Post updated at 7:51 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14:
Five people were injured in a two-vehicle crash south of Lawrence Saturday afternoon, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
The crash occurred around 4:45 p.m. Saturday on U.S. 59 Highway at North 1100 Road.
Deputies determined a Dakota truck was headed west on North 1100 Road, and the driver, an 18-year-old Lawrence woman, failed to stop at a stop sign, according to DGSO’s news release. A southbound Hyundai on the highway then struck the westbound vehicle, according to the release.
The Dakota driver and a Baldwin City man in the truck were seriously injured, according to the release. A 24-year-old Lawrence woman in the truck was also taken to a hospital with injuries.
The two people in the southbound vehicle — the driver, a 55-year-old Lawrence man, and a 57-year-old Lawrence woman — were also taken to an area hospital with serious injuries.
Deputies had shut down the southbound lanes for medics to extricate the patients and to investigate the crash scene, but the highway reopened before 7 p.m. Saturday, according to the release.
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