UPDATE: The Saline County Sheriff’s Office has released new details of a two vehicle accident that sent two drivers to the hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Saline County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Smith tells The Salina Post the accident, which occurred at 12:48 p.m., happened at intersection of Crawford Street and Burma Road, when the driver of a semi, 69-year-old Joe P. Grimes of Junction City, was northbound on Burma Road. He ran a stop sign and struck an eastbound 2008 Cadillac Escalade driven by 34-year-old Terrah May Martin of Ellsworth.
The front of Grimes’ semi struck the passenger’s side of Martin’s Cadillac, causing both vehicles to rollover onto their driver’s sides, coming to rest in the northeast ditch at the intersection. The top and driver’s compartment of the Cadillac also impacted a utility pole.
Deputy Rick Heinrich said both drivers were pinned inside their vehicles. Grimes was extricated from his semi and taken by ambulance to Salina Regional Health Center. He remains in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit.
It took first responders more than an hour to extricate Martin from her vehicle. She was flown from the scene to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, where she remains in critical condition.
Burma Road and Crawford Street remained closed overnight as crews worked to clean up numerous pieces of scrap metal that were scattered throughout the road and ditch which had fallen from the semi’s open box trailer.
Smith said investigators have not yet been able to determine what caused Grimes to run the stop sign.
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At least two people have been injured in a two vehicle accident west of Salina Wednesday afternoon.
The accident happened at the intersection of Crawford Street and Burma Road just before 1 p.m.
Saline County Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Heinrich tells The Salina Post at the scene that the drivers of both vehicles involved, a semi and a Cadillac Escalade, were both extricated from their vehicles.
One driver has been transported by ambulance to Salina Regional Health Center. The other driver was transported from the scene by helicopter.
Heinrich would not comment on the conditons of either driver.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation. More information is expected to be released at a later time.
As of 1:40 p.m., Burma Road was closed to traffic from Crawford to K-140 Highway and Crawford was closed from Old Highway 40 to Burma Road.
