YODER, Kan. — One person was killed in a two vehicle accident Monday evening just north of Yoder.
According to the Reno County Sheriff’s Department, EMS and the SO were called out around 9:50 p.m. to Trails West and Yoder Road. When they arrived, they located two vehicles in the east ditch of Yoder Rd. According to the reports an 81-year-old Moundridge man was on Yoder Road either stopped or traveling at a slow rate of speed when he was hit from behind by a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old Mt Hope youth.
The elderly man was extricated from the vehicle by Fire and EMS and transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center in critical condition. He was later transported to St Francis Hospital in Wichita where he died. The other driver was not injured.
After speaking to the family, the Sheriff's Office identified the fatality as Harold Zerger of Moundridge.
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