For the second day in a row, significant icing overnight lead to numerous crashes across the Wichita Metro area, this time focused on the northeast parts of the city where nearly a dozen crashes occurred on a three mile stretch of K-96 between Woodlawn and Webb Roads. Several minor injuries were reported in the wrecks, including a driver who slid off the road and into a water-filled ditch.
Reports vary from a slight glaze to 0.15-inches of ice fell starting at roughly 3am and lasting through about 9am before a lull in the precip began mid-morning. Temperatures are expected to remain well below freezing through the day into tonight when a third round of freezing rain is expected. This is part of a much larger storm system expected to bring ice and snow to much of the Midwest.
Scene 1: Wide shot of K-96 crash scene with tow truck pulling a vehicle out of a water-filled ditch in the foreground and a two vehicle crash behind the tow truck in the background.
Scene 2: Zoomed shot over the foreground tow truck to the two-vehicle crash behind it.
Scene 3: Tight shot of car in the water off the side of K-96.
Scenes 4-5: Shots of the vehicle being dragged from the ditch through a fence and over some rocks.
Scene 6: Shot of tow truck with car pulled from ditch.
Scene 7: Wide shot of a white SUV with heavy front-end damage as a tow truck arrives on scene.
Scene 8: Shot of two-vehicle crash with white SUV and silver car as tow truck loads one of the vehicles.
Scene 9: Tight shot of the front of the white SUV with front end damage.
Scene 10: Shot of tow truck partially blocking eastbound K-96 as it loads the vehicles up.
Scene 11: Tight side shot of white SUV.
Scene 12: Shot over the damaged SUV to a third accident scene on K-96.
Scene 13: Silver car with heavy front end damage and a blue wagon in the median of K-96 after a crash.
Scene 14: Tighter shot of silver car and police cruiser.
Scene 15: Shot of the side of the silver damaged car.
Scene 16: Wide shot of crash scene with damaged silver car, police cruiser, and a white SUV flipped backwards on the eastbound lanes.
Scene 17: Wide shot of K-96 in some fog with crash scene.
Scene 18: Tow truck putting a black pickup truck on in a crash site on Kellogg in Central Wichita.
Scene 19: Wide shot of tow truck with black truck on Kellogg crash scene.
Scene 20: Police cruiser partially blocking from view a spin out on K-96.
Scene 21-22: Brown car that slid into concrete median wall on Kellogg.
Scene 23: Shot as sun was coming up of red pickup truck that crashed into guard rail on K-96.
Scene 24-25: Tighter shots of red pickup crash.
Scene 26-27: POV driving shots as sun came up including passing a K-DOT sign warning of icy roads.
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