Highway crash in Kansas kills 8, including students, former coach and school employee from Oklahoma
CBSN
Two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas, killing eight people, including two high school students, a former teacher-coach and a school employee from Oklahoma, authorities said Monday.
The crash occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 169 outside of the small town of Greeley, about 60 miles southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. One person escaped from a wrecked vehicle and was hospitalized.
Three of those killed were connected with Tulsa Public Schools, the school district confirmed Monday. Booker T. Washington High School student Donald "DJ" Laster died in the crash, along with former Carver Middle School coach and teacher Wayne Walls and Ja'mon Gilstrap, a member of Tulsa Public Schools' transportation team.
