Jan 28, 2021

Driver hospitalized after car rear-ends snow plow on I-70

Posted Jan 28, 2021 9:00 AM

TREGO COUNTY—One person was injured in an accident just after 9:30a.m. Wednesday in Trego County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Honda Civic driven by John Arthur Moorhouse, 27, Littleton, Colorado, was westbound on Interstate 70 just east of the Ogallah exit.

The Honda rear-ended a 2005 International truck driven by  Aaron Emmitt Curry, 21, WaKeeny who was on the north shoulder on the interstate plowing snow.

EMS transported Moorhouse to Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital. Curry was not injured.  Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.