Two automobile accidents on the Turnpike results in 1 fatality
Sumner Newscow report — A 52-year-old male from Wichita died on the Kansas Turnpike Authority following a rollover crash on Saturday.
Mario Alberto Gonzalez-Cueller was driving northbound at 10 p.m. on Saturday on I-35 when he lost control of his 1999 Ford Explorer and left the roadway on the right side. He then overcorrected, struck a barrier wall, and overturned. A 2014 Toyota Corolla, driven by Truong Van Nguyen, 66, of Wichita, then struck the Explorer. Van Nguyen had minor injuries.
Gonzalez-Cueller was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other passengers had minor injuries.
The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed a secondary crash occurred while enforcement/emergency personnel were cleaning up the first accident. Traffic was stopped in the northbound lane of I-35.
While two vehicles were stopped in the right lane of traffic, Roy Busby, 58 of Hutchinson, was heading northbound driving a 2018 International pulling a semi-trailer when he hit the right side of a 2020 Ford F260 pickup, driven by Steve Jatala of Olathe. The pickup then hit a 2020 Honda CRV driven by Carlos Rice of Wichita.
The International then struck the median wall. One of the vehicles involved rolled to its side, and the other crashed into the northbound ditch.
Those involved in the secondary crash had minor injuries.
