KCPD car wrecks cost hundreds of thousands in settlements each year — paid by your taxes

Two days before Independence Day in 2019, Kansas City bus driver Andrea Sturgis was driving her KCATA bus west on 39th Street in Kansas City with half a dozen passengers on board. Most were going to work at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

At 5:56 a.m. — about 15 minutes before sunrise — she stopped at the light at Main Street. The weather was clear and the pavement dry.

At the same time, Kansas City Police Department Officer Blake Ross was in his marked department Ford Explorer driving south on Main. His lights and siren were off, and he was not responding to an emergency…

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