Topeka,KS : 19-year-old killed in crash involving semi on December, Friday 15th 2017

An Independence teenager was killed Friday night in a car crash involving a semi.

It happened around 10:00 Friday night along Highway 169, about two miles south of Welda. According to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash log, a semi with two occupants drove off the highway, went through the grass and hit a concrete culvert. The driver of the semi then overcorrected back onto the highway and hit an oncoming car. Both the semi and the car ended up in a ditch.

The crash log identified the person who was killed as Andrew K. Metcalf, 19. He was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.

The two men in the semi were not injured. It is unknown if they were wearing seatbelts.

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19-year-old killed in crash involving semi