Newton pedestrian killed in crash
Matt Heilman
Newton Kansan
Two injury accidents involving pedestrians occurred on Main
Street Tuesday. Less than an hour after an elderly woman was struck by a
vehicle on the crosswalk at Broadway and Main and transported to Newton Medical
Center with a leg injury, a second, fatal accident occurred at the cross walk
at Seventh and Main.
The fatal accident was reported at 3:47 p.m. Tuesday.
According to a Kansas Highway Patrol report, a 2005
Trailblazer driven by 79-year-old Newton resident Robert Jackson was stopped at
the traffic light on Seventh Street, facing westbound. When the light turned
green, Jackson's vehicle turned left and struck 66-year-old Newton resident
Kathryn R. Brown.
Brown suffered head trauma and was transported by ambulance
to Wesley Medical Center in critical condition. She died later Tuesday night.
Newton Fire/EMS Battalion Chief Jerry Conyers said he didn't
know all the details of the accident. He said Fire/EMS has a protocol that if
there's a trauma involved with a patient in critical condition, the national
standard is to get the patient to a level one trauma center within an hour of
the accident.
He said Fire/EMS crews were on the scene for about seven
minutes.
In the non-fatal accident, a mid-sized vehicle driven by
51-year-old Newton resident Shirley Dox was turning onto Main Street from
Broadway when her vehicle struck 87-year-old Ruby Winskey of Halstead. Winskey
was transported to Newton Medical Center in non-serious condition.
