KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The driver of a car involved in a high-speed wreck on Nov. 23 died at a hospital four days after the crash in which the vehicle ran off Ward Parkway and landed upside down in Brush Creek.
The crash also killed a female passenger in the car. She was pronounced dead the day of the crash at a Kansas City hospital, according to a KCPD news release.
Names of the driver and passenger have not been released
Police said the crash happened about 2:20 a.m. when the car, traveling west at a high rate of speed on Ward Parkway, lost control in the curve that turns the road to the south, police said.
The car shot over the guardrail and crashed upside down in Brush Creek.
These have been 61 people killed in traffic crashes this year in Kansas City, Missouri
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