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One dead in head-on crash on U.S. 169 in Olathe

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person died Friday after a head-on crash in the area of U.S. 169 and 161st Street in Olathe, Kansas.

First responders were dispatched around 3:30 p.m. to a crash in the northbound lanes of the highway that involved four vehicles.

One person was pronounced dead at the scene and another was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to a release from the Olathe Police Department.

The cause of the crash, which closed the northbound lanes of the highway for more than four hours, remains under investigation.