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Driver injured after swerving to avoid duck decoys in Kansas

emergency featureTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shawnee County authorities say a driver was critically injured after she swerved to avoid a bag of duck decoys on a highway and was ejected from her vehicle.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the rollover crash happened early Thursday morning on the US-75 highway, south of Topeka. Lt. K.D. Lewis says the woman’s vehicle entered the median and rolled after she attempted to avoid the bag that was in the roadway.

Lewis says the bag appears to have fallen out of another vehicle prior to the crash.

The unidentified woman was taken to a hospital with what were considered to be life-threatening injuries.

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