Minor crash snarls Saturday traffic

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

This 2000 Freightliner came to rest against the wire supporting the pole directly in front of the truck after Kenneth Pate, of El Dorado Springs, parked the vehicle in the Woods' Supermarket parking lot at 1407 W. Austin Boulevard in Nevada, Saturday morning. Pate parked the vehicle to attend the Schowe and Shine Car Show and "did not set the parking brake," and the vehicle rolled into the wire, according to a report from the Nevada Police Department. Officials closed U.S. 54 and diverted traffic for about an hour while workers from Garwood Wrecker Service and Kansas City Power & Light cleared the scene.

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