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March 28th, 2024

ks highway patrol badgeROBERT PIERCE • Leader & Times

 

Last Wednesday was a travel day for many making their way home to family for the Thanksgiving holiday.

That day saw two wrecks in Haskell County, with one of them killing a Holcomb teen and the other injuring a Garden City man.

The first accident occurred, the Kansas Highway Patrol said, shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 56 Spud Street in Haskell County.

The KHP reported Jimmy Farris, 64, of Garden City was walking eastbound in the south lane when the mirror from a 2014 F150 struck him.

Farris was taken to St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City with a suspected minor injury. The pickup’s driver, 30-year-old Cody Prosser of Sublette, suffered no apparent injury.

A seat belt was in use in the pickup, according to KHP.

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The second accident happened just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday about four miles south of U.S. Highway 160 on Haskell County Road FF.

The KHP said a 1998 Ford Taurus was traveling northbound on Road FF, when the driver drove left of center. The driver, Johnnie Trevor Coates, 18, of Holcomb, would then leave the roadway to the left traveling northbound.

KHP said the vehicle began to rotate on all four tires in a clockwise direction and later started overturning over the driver’s side an undetermined amount of times.

The report said Coates was not wearing his seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. The Taurus came to rest facing southeast in the northbound lane. Airbags were not deployed.

Coates suffered fatal injuries and was taken to Swaim Funeral Chapel after the accident.