Marshall County Woman Killed On Highway 50

Jared Janzen

Newton Now Staff

HALSTEAD—A woman from Marshall County was killed Saturday morning in a wreck north of Halstead on U.S. Highway 50. It happened at about 6:45 a.m. roughly a quarter mile east of Halstead Road.

The woman was the passenger in a westbound GMC SUV that collided head-on with an eastbound semi tractor trailer. Her name has not yet been released pending notification to family.

The driver of the GMC was transported to Wesley Medical Center in critical condition. The semi driver was uninjured, according to Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Steven Morris.

Morris said investigators were still trying to figure out exactly what had happened, noting that they had received differing accounts.

“We’re still trying to figure it out,” Morris said. “They just sideswiped each other. We’re just trying to figure out who crossed the center line.”

Morris did not know if the two people in the GMC had been wearing seatbelts, but he said the truck driver was.

Highway 50 between Halstead and Hertzler Roads was closed Saturday morning while investigators worked the scene. At 9:30, Morris estimated that it might take another hour before they were finished.

A second eastbound tractor trailer that was not involved in the wreck ended up getting stuck in the ditch and completely blocking the highway after attempting to navigate a U-turn to avoid the scene.

“He was just held up behind it and didn’t want to wait, so he decided to do a U-turn and got stuck,” Morris said. “So he had nothing to do with it.”

Morris added that the driver of this second tractor trailer had not witnessed the wreck happen. The semi was in the process of being towed out of the ditch at 9:30 a.m.

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