A Hiawatha man is dead after a car crash in Brown County. It happened just before 5 p.m. Monday at 783 US Hwy 36.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 53-year-old Martin E. Lawrence of Wetmore was headed east and tried to turn into a private driveway. That’s when 47-year-old Ronnie D. Myers of Hiawatha rear-ended Lawrence’s Peterbilt truck in his Cavalier.
Myers was pronounced dead around 6 p.m.