Two killed, one seriously injured in early morning crash in Kansas City's Northland
A single-vehicle crash killed two people and seriously injured another in Kansas City's Northland early Saturday, police said.
Officers were called around 1 a.m. to Northeast Cookingham Drive near its intersection with Reinking Road after a Chevrolet Tahoe went off the road and crashed, said Captain Jake Becchina, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department. The Tahoe had been speeding east on Cookingham Drive and went off the street at a curve in the roadway, he said.
The SUV went down an embankment, hit a sign and several trees before it caught on fire and was engulfed in flames.
The driver and a passenger who was sitting in the front seat were declared dead at the scene. A passenger who was sitting in a back seat was taken to a local hospital with critical injuries, Becchina said.
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