Two people were hospitalized with critical injuries after a car wreck on U.S. Highway 71 in Kansas City Thursday afternoon.
Around 3:45 p.m., a burgundy Honda Civic with two occupants was traveling more than 100 miles per hour northbound on Highway 71, just past Red Bridge in southern Kansas City, according toAlayna Gonzalez, a spokesperson with the Kansas City Police Department.
The driver was weaving between vehicles, passing too closely, and overcorrected the vehicle to avoid a collision, Gonzalez said in a press release. Upon avoiding vehicles, the Honda skidded sideways between the first lane and the emergency lane, and rolled at least three times, ejecting the driver…