WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Turnpike Authority says a 25-year-old driver has died after her vehicle collided with a paint-striping crew truck near Wellington.

The crash happened shortly before noon Wednesday on the turnpike about 21 miles north of the Oklahoma line. The victim was later identified as Urmila Sharma, of Kansas City, Kansas.

Turnpike Authority spokeswoman Rachel Bell told The Wichita Eagle Sharma was northbound in the inside lane when she passed one of several crew trucks trailing a paint striper. Sharma merged her vehicle back into the inside lane and struck a second truck in the slow-moving caravan.

Bell says a team of six trucks follows a vehicle painting stripes on the turnpike, with the paint truck usually going about 4 mph and the six trucks following at quarter-mile intervals.

 

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One person is dead after colliding with a paint-striping crew truck on the Kansas Turnpike near Wellington.

Kansas Turnpike Authority spokeswoman Rachel Bell tells The Wichita Eagle the vehicle was traveling north in the inside lane on Wednesday when the driver passed one of several crew trucks trailing a paint striper. The vehicle merged back into the inside lane and struck a second truck in the slow-moving caravan.

Bell says the driver of the vehicle was killed  The driver been identified as a twenty-five year old woman from Kansas City
She says a team of six trucks follows a vehicle painting stripes on the turnpike, with the paint truck usually going about 4 p.m. and the six other trucks following at quarter-mile intervals.