DICKINSON COUNTY—Three people were injured in an accident just before 6:30p.m. Thursday in Dickinson County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Ford F250 driven by Eric Scott Arndt, 46, Blue Springs, Missouri., was eastbound on Intestate 70 four miles east of Abilene.
The pickup rear-ended a 1996 Chevy GMT-400 driven by Nelson Soto Escobar, 48, Ozark, Missouri, and traveled into the south ditch.
The Chevy became disabled in the right lane of I-70. An eastbound 2021 Freightliner semi driven by Joseph James Velasquez, 35, Lakewood, Colorado, swerved to avoid the Chevy but struck the ladder in the bed of the truck.
EMS transported Soto Escobar to Salina Regional Health Center and passengers in the Chevy Ariel Gervi Soto-Lopez, 26 and Louisa Franschisca Soto-Amador, 50, both of Springfield, Missouri to the hospital in Abilene. Arndt, Velasquez and a passenger in the semi were not injured.