KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Independence police released the name of a suspected impaired driver killed in a crash on Nov. 1 that injured an Independence police officer.
Shortly before 5 a.m., Independence police were alerted to a possible impaired driver heading southbound on Interstate 470 at westbound Interstate 70.
An officer tried to stop the white sedan, but it drove off and the officer initiated a pursuit.
The suspect, identified as Terry Lewis Jr., drove onto the exit ramp to U.S. 40 Highway but made a U-turn on the ramp.
The officer stopped pursuing the sedan.
Lewis drove the wrong way up the exit ramp and collided with a second police officer who just arrived at the scene.
He died at the scene.
The police officer was treated and released from a hospital.
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