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Downs Teen Injured in Crash North of Luray

Kansas Highway Patrol
Kansas Highway Patrol

A teen from Downs was injured in a single vehicle crash north of Luray on Saturday, October 24.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol report, 16-year-old Emilie Becker was driving a 2009 Dodge pickup southbound on US Highway 281 six miles north of Luray when the vehicle dropped off the roadway. She overcorrected causing the pickup to cross all lanes of traffic, entered the west ditch and rolled.

Becker was taken to the hospital in Osborne.

The crash happened Saturday morning just before 11 AM.

She was wearing a seatbelt according to the KHP report.

(Information courtesy Kansas Highway Patrol.)