ERIE, Kan.- One person died and three were injured in an accident just before 8 a.m. on Saturday in Neosho County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Buick Rendezvous driven by Sonja Jo Ford, 37, Erie, was eastbound on 160th Road three miles north of Erie.

The vehicle failed to yield at U.S. 59 and struck a 2010 Ford Focus driven by Sharon L. Rice, 57, Chanute, that was southbound on U.S. 59.

Rice was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics.

Ford and a teenager in the Buick were transported Labette County Health in Parsons. A ten-year-old boy in the Buick was transported to Children’s Mercy.

The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.