JOHNSON COUNTY —One person died in accident just before 4a.m. Sunday in Johnson County.
A citizen report told police a vehicle was southbound on Interstate 35 at Interstate 635 freeway at a high rate of speed according to Overland Park Police Officer John Lacy.
Moments later the same citizen came upon the vehicle after it had crashed underneath the eastbound Interstate 635 bridge. EMS transported the driver of vehicle, later identified as Nicolas Hawthorne, 34, Kansas City, Missouri, to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries. Medical staff pronounced him deceased.
The crash is still under investigation, according to Lacy.