KANSAS CITY (AP) — Three people were killed in separate crashes in Kansas City in a single morning this week, police there said.
The first happened just before 2 a.m. Wednesday when a head-on crash in the south end of the city killed one driver.
The second crash happened about 6:40 a.m. Wednesday when a Jeep lost control in the South Town Fork Creek neighborhood and hit a utility pole, then a tree, killing the driver, police said.
Minutes later, a 59-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a sport utility vehicle on Blue Parkway.
Police did not immediately release the names of those killed.
Wednesday's fatalities came as Kansas City is seeing a significant increase in deadly crashes, police said. Data show 86 people have been killed on city roads this year, compared with 78 fatalities in all of 2019, police said