A silver Ford Mustang sought in a hit-and-run accident in western Saline County Wednesday evening was found abandoned Thursday evening.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that deputies recovered the Mustang in the 11000 block of West Stimmel Road at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. The abandoned Mustang had dark blue stripes and damage that was consistent with the accident, he said.
Deputies are attempting to contact the registered owner, Soldan said. The car was registered to an address in Alden, Kan., he added.
Kyle Johnson, 27, of Ellsworth, told deputies that he was eastbound on Kansas Highway 140 (K-140), about a mile east of the Saline-Ellsworth county line, on Wednesday evening when he thought a silver Ford Mustang with dark blue stripes and personalized tag that also was traveling eastbound was going to pass him, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. Instead, the vehicle struck the left rear part of Johnson's green 1995 Mustang, causing it to spin across the road and roll once, coming to rest on its wheels, Soldan said.
The silver Mustang also spun off the road, but soon recovered and sped off eastbound on K-140, he said.
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