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One injured in Hiawatha wreck

By Greg Bebermeyer

08/27/2018

(KNZA)--The Hiawatha Police Department is investigating a single-vehicle wreck Saturday evening that sent one person to the hospital.

According to a press release from Hiawatha Police Chief John Defore, the wreck was reported around 6:50 in the 22-hundred block of Linden Road.

Defore said when officers arrived on the scene they found the driver trapped in the vehicle.

He said several passersby were already rending aid and helping direct traffic when the officers arrived.

After the driver was extricated, he was transported by ambulance to the Hiawatha Community Hospital and then later transported by helicopter to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka.

The name of the driver was not immediately released.

Defore says the wreck remains under investigation.

Responding to the scene were the Hiawatha Police Department, Brown County Sheriff's Department, Hiawatha Fire Department, Squad 48, Town and Country EMS and Sac and Fox Tribal Police.

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