Passenger dies after high-speed crash in Kechi, police chief says

One person was killed and another was seriously injured Friday morning after a one-vehicle crash near Oliver and Kansas Highway 254.

Kechi Police Chief Braden Moore said a vehicle northbound on Oliver came into Kechi city limits “at a very high rate of speed” before losing control. It veered off the east side of the road before striking two telephone poles, snapping them in half.

The passenger, a Wichita resident in their 40s, died at the scene, Moore said. The driver was taken to a hospital…

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