Nov 12, 2024

Patrol IDs two who died after 3-vehicle crash on the Kan. Turnpike

Posted Nov 12, 2024 1:30 PM

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Two people died in an accident just after 4a.m. Monday in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Chevy SUV driven by Thomas Reller, 78, Zumbrota, Minnesota, was northbound on Interstate 35 just south of Haysville. 

The SUV rear-ended a 2025 International semi driven by Tasheba Peavy, 45, Houston, Texas, that had struck a deer and then the barrier wall. The impact pushed the International semi into the rear of another semi driven by Shanna Coleman, 47, The Woodlands, Texas.

Reller and a passenger in the SUV Octavia Reller, 27, Zumbrota, Minnesota, were pronounced dead at the scene. EMS transported the two   semi drivers to a local hospital. All four were properly restrained, according to the KHP.