Man found guilty for 2022 deadly wrong-way crash on I-435 in Overland Park
OLATHE, Kan. — A 32-year-old Lenexa, Kansas man is convicted for causing a wrong-way crash on Interstate 435 in Overland Park that left an Independence man dead in December of 2022.
A Johnson County jury on Wednesday found Matthew J. Ryan guilty of reckless second-degree murder.
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On Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, investigators responded to westbound I-435 where witnesses told officers a wrong-way driver entered the highway traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes and struck a vehicle.
After the impact, the suspect vehicle continued westbound and collided with another vehicle head-on that was traveling eastbound approaching Quivira Road.
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The driver of the second vehicle, identified as 42-year-old Karl Wurtenberger of Independence, Missouri, was pronounced dead on the scene.
Ryan is scheduled to be sentenced on July 17.
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