LEON, Kan.–Four people were injured in a 3-vehicle crash just before 10 p.m. Saturday in Butler County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Grand Prix driven by Robert V. Lara Jr., 41, El Dorado, was westbound on U.S. 400 six miles east of Leon.
The vehicle drove left of center and sideswiped a 2013 Lincoln driven by J.K. Wright, 66, Joplin, Mo. The vehicles left the roadway and entered the south ditch.
A Ford Taurus driven by Donald Allen Hoffman, 58 Haysville, stuck debris from the original crash.
Lara was transported Susan B. Allen Hospital in El Dorado
Wright and a passenger in the Lincoln Mary Jo Wright, 66, Joplin were transported to St. Francis Medical Center. A passenger in the Taurus Lois I. Roper, 86, Wichita, was transported to Wesley Medical Center.
The KHP reported Lara was not wearing a seat belt.