Sep 02, 2020

Man dies after crash while attempting U-turn on Kan. highway

Posted Sep 02, 2020 7:00 AM

BROWN COUNTY —One person died in an accident just before 5p.m. Tuesday in Brown County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Dodge Avenger driven by Terry Robert Rush, 35, Hiram, Georgia, was southbound on U.S. 75 twelve miles south of Fairview attempting to make a U-turn. A southbound 2017 Kenworth semi driven by Edwardo Torres, 60, Eagle Pass, Texas, struck the Dodge.

Rush and a passenger McEwen, Mary Katherine McEwen, 37, Topeka, to Stormont Vail in Topeka where Rush died.

Torres was not injured.  All three were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.