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Two NE Kansas teens hospitalized after van overturns

BROWN COUNTY — Two northeast Kansas teens were injured in an accident just before 9p.m. Sunday in Brown County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by Jolanda Muriel Simon, 17, Horton, was northbound on Grasshopper Road just south of Powhattan.

After exiting a curve, the driver lost control of the van. It left the roadway. traveled into a field and overturned.

Simon and a passenger Jaiden Simon, 13,  Horton, were transported to the hospital in Hiawatha.

A third passenger 15-year-old Mahaley Simon was transported but not injured.  All three were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

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