Archive for Saturday, March 22, 2008

Archive for Saturday, March 22, 2008

Boy hurt in turnpike accident near Bonner Springs

Truck overturns after traveling too fast on exit

March 22, 2008

A 10-year-old boy was flown by air ambulance Children's Mercy Hospital about 10:30 a.m. Saturday, after a semitrailer rolled over on the Kansas Turnpike near Bonner Springs and Kansas Highway 7.

The boy was a passenger in a 2001 truck driven by Javier Ruiseco, a 35-year-old Las Vegas man.

According to the Kansas Turnpike Authority, Ruiseco was traveling west on the turnpike and went too fast on an exit for Kansas Highway 7 and lost control of the truck.

The truck rolled into a ditch. Ruiseco was not injured. The boy's condition was unavailable Saturday afternoon.