The crash from Kansas Highway kills 8 people, including 3 from Oklahoma Schools

Greeley, Kansas
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Two vehicles collided head -on and broke into flames on a two -lane motorway in the rural east of Kansas and killed eight people, including a student, a teacher official and a school worker from Oklahoma, the authorities said on Monday.

The crash occurred on Sunday at 5:45 p.m. in the USA 169 in front of the small town of Greeley, about 97 kilometers southwest of Kansas City, Missouri, said the Kansas Highway Patrol. One person escaped from a destroyed vehicle and was taken to the hospital.

Three of the people killed were connected to Tulsa Public Schools, the school district confirmed on Monday.

The student of Booker T. Washington High School, Donald “DJ” vice, died in the accident together with the former coach of Carver Middle School and teacher Wayne Walls and Tulsa Public Schools Transportation Team member Ja'mon Gilstrap.

“I am broken with a broken heart for those who have lost relatives and have undertaken to appreciate the immense collective effects of each of these people in Tulsa and in the life of our young people,” said Dr. Ebony Johnson, superintendent of the Tulsa public schools, in a statement. “I pray for their families and everyone involved and hope that others will continue to come with our students, team members and families who are injured.”

The crash closed a section of the highway for four hours, and Jodi Clary, Trooper from Kansas Highway Patrol, said that the authorities were still working on the accident site on Monday evening. The cause of the crash remained.

“Both cars are burned,” said Clary.