Dec 06, 2024

Fatal wreck on US 56 Friday

Posted Dec 06, 2024 6:59 PM
<br>

RICE COUNTY, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kansas man was killed Friday morning in a single vehicle wreck on US 56 east of Little River.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 26-year-old Gabriel Herron was westbound on Highway 56 just east of 28th Road, about three miles west of the Rice/McPherson County line, just before 6:30 a.m.

He was driving a 2005 Honda Element that left the roadway to the right, overcorrected, and went back onto the road, then back into the ditch where his vehicle rolled twice.

Herron, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene.