News: Driver injured after being side-swiped by semi on I-35

JOHNSON COUNTY, KS – A man was seriously injured on Monday afternoon when a semi-truck side-swiped his vehicle on Interstate 35, KIBW reports.

The accident occurred close to 1:25 p.m near the 229.9 mile marker when a Peterbilt semi-truck changed lanes in slowing traffic and merged into a lane occupied by a Lexus, crashing into the vehicle.

The Lexus’ driver, Lenaxa resident Sharon Kaye McIntosh, 43, was taken to Saint Luke’s hospital with serious injuries.

The driver of the semi, 34-year-old Joseph Russel Jackson of Colorado Springs, was reportedly uninjured.

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