KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person died and five people were seriously injured after an overnight crash involving five vehicles in Kansas City, Missouri.
The driver of a rollback tow truck was attempting to tow a disabled maroon Kia Sorento shortly before 12:15 a.m. Saturday in the left turn lane of Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard at Eastwood Avenue, according to KCPD.
As the driver of the tow truck began making a U-turn to get into position to tow the Kia, the driver of a black Dodge Avenger traveling west on Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard failed to stop at a red stoplight and attempted to drive between the tow truck and a pearl Cadillac Seville, stopped at the red light.
The Dodge struck the Cadillac, the tow truck and a gold Pontiac Transport van — parked behind the Kia — and occupied by the sister of the Kia driver, who was at the scene attempting to help her brother.
Police said the Dodge then came to a stop "quite a distance" west from where the collision took place.
The driver of the Cadillac — identified Tuesday as 67-year-old Larry McDonald — died on the scene.
Five occupants of the Dodge were transported to an area hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.
The drivers of the tow truck, Kia and Pontiac, and passengers of the Pontiac, were not injured in the crash.
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