Posted December 07, 2023 11:38am
(KAIR)--A vehicle crash in downtown Atchison Thursday morning sent the two drivers to the hospital.
It happened in the 700 block of Main Street, around 9:15 Thursday morning, when 64-year-old Atchison resident, Dennis Collier, was southbound in the 100 block of South 7th Street. He then turned west, into an apartment complex parking lot, where his pickup truck struck a fixed object and then a parked vehicle.
Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, in a release, explains that Collier's truck then exited the parking lot onto Main Street, in the 700 block, where it struck an eastbound SUV. The driver of that vehicle, 31-year-old Garret Williams, of Smithville, Missouri, was transported to Amberwell Atchison, for hospital examination, by private vehicle. Collier was transported to Amberwell, for examination, by Atchison County EMS.