The Kansas Highway Patrol reported three vehicle fatalities over the weekend.
A man from Bellevue, Neb., was killed Saturday morning in a vehicle crash at the I-135/K-61 interchange southeast of McPherson.
The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victim as 69-year-old Mickey Mitani. Mitani was eastbound on K-61 when he failed to negotiate the left hand turn to the northbound I-135 on-ramp, his vehicle going airborne coming to rest on its top just over 300 feet east of the interstate. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Dennis Simonton, of Richmond, Mo., passed away in a fatal crash on Friday in Jewell County. Simonton was driving Southbound on Randall Road in Jewell County 4.9 miles South of the city of Randall. He lost control of the vehicle and left the roadway to the East into a field. The vehicle rolled multiple times and came to rest on its roof in the East ditch.Â
Dejuanique Edmonson (27) of Concordia, was killed Friday evening when the car she was a passenger in went off the Kansas Turnpike north of El Dorado. Edmonson and two other people in the car were ejected. Those two and the driver of the car were taken to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita with reported serious injuries.
