Aug 08, 2022

Man dies after struck by van door on Kan. Turnpike

Posted Aug 08, 2022 9:00 AM

WYANDOTTE COUNTY—One person died in an accident just before 6:30p.m. Sunday in Wyandotte County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2018 Honda Civic driven by Andrea Lopez, 20, Topeka, was eastbound on the Kansas Turnpike just before the I-635 exit in the left lane.

The Honda struck the right rear quarter panel and the sliding door on 2017 Ford Transit van that was stopped on the left shoulder.

The sliding door struck a man outside the van identified as 42-year-old Chris McClellan of Columbus, North Carolina.

A 2020 BMW X5M driven by Alexander Babich, 67, St. Louis, Missouri, struck the sliding door from van in the left lane.

EMS transported McClellan to KU Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.  Lopez, Babich and a passenger in the BMW were properly restrained and not injured, according to the KHP.