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Diane Lister was just driving her Cadillac on Interstate 70 near Junction City when a pickup came the wrong way and hit her head-on. She was 62 and lived in Chapman. The crash killed her right there on Wednesday afternoon.

Seth Moreland drove that Ford F-150. He was 41 and from Caney. Deputies from the Geary County Sheriff’s Office had been chasing him west on the highway. He pulled off near the Washington Street exit then turned back onto I-70 the wrong direction.

The truck smashed into Lister’s Cadillac XT5 in the interchange area around milepost 296.9. Both drivers died from their injuries. No one else was in either vehicle.

Lister ran Lucky Charm Quilts in Chapman. Friends knew her for that shop. She was a partner in the business according to local listings. Folks in the small Dickinson County town lost one of their own that day.

Moreland had been heading west when the chase started. Authorities still have not said why deputies went after him. The Kansas Highway Patrol handled the investigation after the wreck.

The highway shut down for a while near exit 296. Traffic had to detour until crews cleared the scene. Both people were pronounced dead at the site.

This kind of wrong-way crash leaves families broken and a whole stretch of road marked by sudden loss. Lister was going about her day. Moreland was running from the law. The head-on impact ended both lives in seconds.

Kaitlin Rose Wagner Zbonski was just 29 years old and lived on Chicago’s Northwest Side. She rode her motorcycle on the Ontario Street feeder ramp of the Kennedy Expressway shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday. The bike hit a concrete wall hard. She went right over it and landed in the southbound lanes of traffic below.

Illinois State Police said that is what happened. No other vehicles were involved in the initial crash. She was taken to Stroger Hospital right away. Doctors there pronounced her dead at 3:51 p.m. The Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed the time.

Several lanes of the expressway closed after the wreck. Traffic backed up for hours in that busy stretch. Officials said the lanes opened back up around 6 p.m. The ramp sits in Cook County and serves as a main route for people heading through the city and nearby towns.

Zbonski was traveling alone when it happened. The wall stood between the feeder ramp and the lower highway lanes. Once she went over, she dropped into moving traffic. Crews worked the scene through the afternoon.

Friends and family from the Northwest Side now deal with the sudden loss. She was young and out on her motorcycle on a regular Wednesday. The crash closed a key part of the Kennedy for a while. Drivers had to find other ways around until everything cleared.

Police keep looking into the exact cause. The concrete barrier did not give. Her body was moved from the southbound lanes after the fall. Hospital staff did what they could once she arrived.

The Kennedy Expressway sees heavy traffic every day. This feeder ramp connects Ontario Street into the flow. One moment she was riding. The next the wall stopped her and sent her over the edge. Lanes stayed shut until evening so crews could clean up and investigate.

Traffic on the Kennedy Expressway ground to a halt Wednesday afternoon after a motorcycle went over a concrete wall. Kaitlin Rose Wagner Zbonski, 29, from Chicago’s Northwest Side, was the rider. She hit the wall on the Ontario Street feeder ramp just before 3 p.m. Then she landed in the southbound lanes below.

Illinois State Police reported the details. The bike struck the barrier and she was thrown clear over it. No other cars caused the first impact. Ambulances got her to Stroger Hospital fast. She was pronounced dead there at 3:51 p.m. by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Workers shut down several lanes right after the crash. The backup stretched through the Chicago area. Everything reopened around 6 p.m. The ramp feeds traffic onto the expressway and handles a lot of daily drivers.

Zbonski lived on the Northwest Side and was riding alone that day. The drop from the ramp to the lower roadway is steep. Once over the wall she was in the path of southbound cars. Cleanup took the rest of the afternoon.

The expressway is a main path through Cook County. This kind of wreck stops everything in both directions for a time. Police still check the scene for more facts. Hospital records show the exact time of death.

Drivers found other routes while the lanes stayed closed. The feeder ramp from Ontario Street sits right in the middle of the city flow. One hard hit against the concrete changed the whole afternoon for everyone on the road. Crews finished their work by early evening and traffic moved again.

An 18-year-old was behind the wheel of a 2010 Chrysler Sebring on Wednesday night when everything changed. Ni’yeya Chappell drove on Jimmie Dyess Parkway near Interstate 20 in Columbia County. Amiya Janelle Hogan, 17, rode in the front passenger seat.

At about 8:55 p.m. the Chrysler turned in front of a 2020 Mercury driven by 60-year-old Michael Pruett. The Mercury struck the passenger side. The Chrysler spun into a guardrail and a street sign.

Amiya was rushed to the hospital. She died from her injuries.

Chappell was injured too. A 13-year-old passenger named Alyssa Figueroa was also hurt. Both were taken to Doctors Hospital.

Officials determined Chappell caused the crash. Charges are pending as she recovers. Investigators continue looking into the details.

One turn in traffic led to a fatal outcome for the young passenger. The other two in the car are dealing with their own injuries and what comes next.

The road where it happened stays busy most nights. This one ended with a life lost and questions still open.

Amiya Janelle Hogan sat in the front passenger seat of a 2010 Chrysler Sebring on Wednesday night. She was 17. The car was driven by 18-year-old Ni’yeya Chappell. They were on Jimmie Dyess Parkway near Interstate 20 in Columbia County.

Around 8:55 p.m. the Chrysler turned in front of a 2020 Mercury. Michael Pruett, 60, was driving that Mercury. It hit the passenger side of the Chrysler hard. The impact spun the Chrysler into a guardrail and a street sign.

Amiya was taken to a hospital right away. Her injuries were too severe. She did not survive.

Ni’yeya Chappell was hurt in the crash. So was 13-year-old Alyssa Figueroa, another passenger. Both went to Doctors Hospital for treatment.

Authorities say Chappell was at fault. Charges are pending while she recovers. The investigation is still going on.

Amiya was just 17. She had her whole life ahead. A young person gone in one sudden crash on a local road.

Family and friends now face the quiet that follows such a loss. The details of that night remain clear in the reports from the scene.

A 36-year-old Dothan man named Charlie Lee Wright Jr. was killed in a crash on Ross Clark Circle early Thursday. It was a single-car wreck right around 2 a.m. near the 2700 block.

His vehicle drifted off the pavement briefly. Control slipped away after that. The car rolled and tossed him out onto the ground nearby.

First responders got there and found him off the roadway. They declared him dead at the scene. It was over before the sun came up.

Investigators point to speed as a possible factor. The probe is still open. Dothan police have their specialized crash unit on it.

Charlie was local. He had roots in the area and people who cared about him. A wreck like this hits hard because it comes without any warning at all.

Traffic on the northbound side of Ross Clark Circle stayed blocked while they processed everything. The Houston County coroner showed up as part of the response.

These early morning crashes leave questions that do not get answered right away. Charlie Lee Wright Jr. is gone, and the road where it happened keeps carrying traffic like nothing stopped.

Charlie Lee Wright Jr. died early Thursday in a single-vehicle crash on Ross Clark Circle in Dothan. He was 36 years old. The wreck happened just before 2 a.m. in the 2700 block.

Police say his vehicle left the roadway for a short stretch. Then the driver lost control. The car flipped over. Charlie was thrown out.

Officers found him lying just off the road. He was pronounced dead right there at the scene. No one else was in the vehicle.

Speed looks like it played a part in what happened. The Dothan Police Department is still digging into the details. Their crash team is handling the investigation.

Charlie lived in Dothan. People who knew him say he was just a regular guy trying to get by like everybody else. Now his family and friends are left picking up the pieces after a sudden loss.

The northbound lanes stayed shut for hours while crews worked the scene. Coroner Robert Byrd was called out too. It was a quiet stretch of road at that hour, but that did not matter.

Folks in Dothan wake up to news like this more often than anyone wants. Charlie will not see another morning. His name is now tied to that stretch of Ross Clark Circle forever.

Shots cracked through the 600 block of 14th Street SW in Hickory just before 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Two young men from the same town ended up with bullet wounds. One of them never came home.

Dionte Jashea Murph, 23, took a gunshot that proved fatal. Medics rushed him from the scene to a local hospital. Staff worked on him but he died from the injury later that night.

Phalen Devon Izard Jr. was the other one hit. At 19 he got himself to the hospital. Doctors checked him out and said the wound would not kill him. He remains under care but stable.

Hickory officers treated it as a homicide from the jump. They are gathering every scrap of evidence they can find. No motive has been shared and no one has been named as a suspect yet.

The call came in at 6:51 p.m. Neighbors heard the noise and dialed 911. Responders arrived to a chaotic stretch of road and two injured men.

Investigators still need help filling in the blanks. Anyone who saw or heard anything is asked to reach out to Investigator Helderman with the Hickory Police Department.

Two local kids got caught in the same burst of gunfire. One is gone for good. The other carries the scar. Police say the probe is active and they will keep pushing for answers.

Dionte Jashea Murph was just 23 when shots rang out on a Wednesday evening in Hickory. He lived right there in town. Police got the call about a shooting in the 600 block of 14th Street SW around 6:51 that night.

Officers and emergency crews rolled up fast. They found Murph hurt bad from a gunshot. They got him to a local hospital quick as they could. Doctors tried hard but he did not make it.

A second young man took a bullet too. Phalen Devon Izard Jr., only 19 and also from Hickory, made it to the hospital on his own. His wound was not life-threatening. He is expected to pull through.

Hickory police have opened a full homicide case. Detectives are piecing together what went down before the shots and right when they happened. So far they have not named any suspects or said what sparked it.

Folks who knew Dionte are left reeling. Twenty-three is no age to go. His family and friends now face empty chairs and hard questions with no easy answers.

Cops keep working the scene and talking to people who might have seen something. They want anyone with even a small piece of info to call Investigator Helderman at the Hickory Police Department.

The street where it happened sits in a regular neighborhood. Now it carries the weight of a young life cut short and another still recovering. Police say more details will come as they dig deeper.

A motorcycle carrying two people slammed into trouble on the Barrancas Avenue Bridge Wednesday night. The passenger never got up.

Angela Nieto, a Pensacola Police detective, rode on the back. Her male friend handled the controls. They traveled eastbound over Bayou Chico near Pace Boulevard. About 8 p.m. on October 14 he lost the bike in a curve. The crash killed Nieto at the scene.

The driver went to a hospital with injuries that doctors called non-life-threatening. Authorities still have not released his name.

The bridge spans Bayou Chico in Escambia County, Florida. Police shut it down while they sorted out the wreckage and gathered what they could.

Pensacola Police Department and Florida Highway Patrol share the investigation. They have not explained the exact reason the driver lost control.

Nieto worked as an off-duty detective that night. She sat behind the operator when everything went wrong in seconds.

Local roads near downtown Pensacola stayed disrupted for hours. The joint probe continues. The known facts remain the same: two people on one motorcycle, a curve on the bridge, and one detective who did not walk away.