Update: 10:30 p.m. – KAKE News has named the four killed in Wednesday night’s accident on the turnpike:
"The driver has been identified as 39-year-old Michael Minor of Sedgwick. The names of the three passengers who died in the crash have been released: 23-year-old Lindsey Shain, 27-year-old Chad Kingsley and 22-year-old Johnette Grimes. The three passengers were residents of Wichita.
A fifth passenger, 27-year-old Michael Meyer, was injured in the crash and flown to a Wichita hospital. He is currently listed in serious condition at Wesley Medical Center.
The driver of the semi is 34-year-old Miguel Guzman-Hernandez, also of Wichita."
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Four people were killed, and another injured, in a two-vehicle collision on the Kansas Turnpike just north of the Oklahoma border.
The accident involved a semi-truck and another vehicle, according to Sumner County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Yoder. South-bound traffic was closed for several hours as the accident investigation took place and traffic was backed up for close to a mile.
Witnesses near the scene said it appeared a car, carrying all four that perished, was making a u-turn on the turnpike when a semi struck the vehicle.
The Kansas Highway Patrol’s Critical Highway Accident Response Team was at the scene investigating, according to an officer at the scene. CHART was called because of the number of fatalities and due to the fact that a commercial vehicle was involved.
The wreck occurred some time after 9 p.m., just south of where U.S. Highway 166 meets the Kansas Turnpike. The area includes a motel and convenience store familiar to area motorists.