
A newly-released crash report states the woman whose car was dragged eight miles under a semi truck following a crash Wednesday in Leawood had been drinking beforehand and ran a red light.
According to the crash report, the 28-year-old woman drove her Kia compact car through a red light at State Line Road off of Interstate 435 and lodged it into the side of a Freightliner Cascadia truck. The truck kept driving and dragged the car underneath for the next eight miles.
The car sustained significant damage, but the woman inside suffered only non-life-threatening injuries. She was conscious and taken to the hospital for evaluation, according to the Leawood Police Department.
The woman had to be extricated from the vehicle by the Overland Park Fire Department. She told Overland Park police on the scene she had been coming back from a bar in downtown Kansas City at the time of the crash.
The crash reported stated that results are still pending for alcohol.
The truck driver showed no evidence of drug or alcohol impairment, the crash report states.
There do not appear to be any charges filed in the incident, as of Friday afternoon.