Nov 21, 2022

Two Lindsborg teens injured when pickup rolls at Coronado Heights

Posted Nov 21, 2022 5:39 PM
<b>The pickup sustained major damage when it rolled and was towed from the scene. </b>Photo courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office
The pickup sustained major damage when it rolled and was towed from the scene. Photo courtesy Saline County Sheriff's Office

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post

CORONADO HEIGHTS - Two teens from Lindsborg were injured Sunday night after the pickup they were in rolled coming down the road from Coronado Heights in southern Saline County.

A 17-year-old boy was driving a 2009 Chevrolet Colorado pickup down the hill when the pickup failed to negotiate a curve in the road and rolled at least once, coming to rest on its tires, Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander said this morning. The wreck occurred just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

It is believed that the boy was driving too fast to safely negotiate the curve, Melander said.

Both the boy and a 17-year-old girl who was a passenger in the pickup were taken by EMS to the Lindsborg Community Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Melander said. They both had been properly restrained in the pickup.