A Colorado man who struck and killed an 82-year-old Wichita woman after driving more than double the posted speed limit in 2024 has been sentenced to prison.
26-year-old Austin Hedges told police that he was driving the speed limit on March 16, 2024, while on his way to dinner with a friend. But when 82-year-old Kathy Knorr pulled out in front of him at an intersection near the 800 block of North Rock Road, Hedges said he didn’t have time to react and struck the woman’s vehicle.
Knorr was taken to a hospital with several broken bones, collapsed lungs and a brain bleed. She died two weeks later…