Crash claims two lives on Dunlap Road
Woman seriously injured
By Bobbi Mlynar
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Two men were killed and a woman was seriously injured Friday night in an accident about three miles southeast of Council Grove on the Dunlap Road.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Jeremy DeWayne Evans, 23, of Council Grove and Branden Lee Bowman, 25, of Topeka died in the one-vehicle accident.
Rachel Harden, 30, of Council Grove, was life-flighted from the scene and taken to St. Francis Health Center in Topeka.
Another passenger in the vehicle, Adam Charles Sommer, 25, of Council Grove, was taken to Morris County Hospital with possible injuries.
The KHP report said that Evans failed to negotiate a curve on the roadway. The 2001 Pontiac Montana he was driving went into the ditch, where it continued for about 100 yards.
As Evans attempted to re-enter the roadway, he overcorrected and returned to the ditch, where the vehicle rolled one and three-fourths times, coming to rest on the driver's side.
The report said that Evans, Bowman, and Sommer were not wearing seatbelts. It is not known whether Harden was belted in.