Streets, roads and highways had been all slick Sunday night time after a skinny wintry glaze developed. Situations are nonetheless slick Monday morning. Chuck Samples/KVOE Information.
Icing wasn’t restricted to Christmas cookies Sunday night.
The Christmas night wintry combine is having a major journey impression Monday morning. Journey remains to be slick areawide after a skinny wintry glaze of sleet and freezing rain developed after sundown, regardless of work by Emporia metropolis, Lyon County and Kansas Division of Transportation crews within the night and early in a single day hours. Non-injury slideoffs had been reported in all space counties, and the Kansas Freeway Patrol labored three reported damage crashes in Osage County alone — though just one, a single-vehicle rollover on the Kansas Turnpike about 35 miles northeast of Emporia round 2:45 am Monday, led to hospital transports. George Pennington, age 71 of Topeka, and a passenger, 46-year-old Curtis Odum of Topeka, each went to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka with suspected minor accidents. A number of autos collided on Interstate 35 at BETO Juncton, however the Coffey County Sheriff’s Workplace says there have been no hospital transports from that incident.
For Monday morning journey, Lyon County Deputy Fernando Zuniga says drivers have to decelerate and improve the space between their autos and the others round them.
Emporia has been in Stage 2 crash reporting since mid-evening. That is the place drivers in non-injury crashes can trade insurance coverage info after which report the wreck to the Lyon County Emergency Communications non-emergency quantity, 620-343-4225, as soon as the storm clears.
Freeway situations are nonetheless seasonal to fully coated, with Interstate 35 east of Highway U and US Freeway 75 south of BETO Junction seeing the worst situations as of 6 am. Journey points might persist by way of the morning hours areawide.
Monday shall be colder than first thought as a chilly entrance drives temperatures all the way down to the mid-teens by 5 pm and 5 above in a single day, however excessive temperatures shall be near 50 levels by Wednesday and there are probabilities of rainfall Friday night time into Saturday.
Stick with KVOE, KVOE.com and KVOE social media for updates. Click here for KVOE News’ prior coverage.
