MARION COUNTY, Kan. — Three women died in an accident in Marion County Friday afternoon.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by 52-year-old Charlotte Sue Cole of Moundridge was traveling north on K-256 when the van pulled out in front of a 2016 Ford Taurus going west on U.S. 56 just before 1:30 p.m. Friday.
The car hit the minivan on the passenger side and both vehicles came to rest in the north ditch.
Cole and a 19-year-old passenger in the minivan died, as well as a passenger in the Taurus, 85-year-old Wanda L. Richmond of Marion. The driver of the car, a 36-year-old woman from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, suffered a non-life-threatening injury. A second passenger, a 58-year-old woman from Salina, was seriously injured.
All of the people involved were buckled up, according to the report.
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