9 May 2023
LINN COUNTY (KSNT) – A man is dead following a collision between his truck and a tree in Linn County Monday night.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says that at 7:20 p.m. on May 9 a Dodge Dakota truck was traveling south on K-7 Highway around a mile north of Mound City when the crash occurred. The Dodge failed to navigate a curve in the road and struck a tree head-on.
The driver of the Dodge, later identified as Jody N. Russell, 67, of Mound City, died in the crash. She was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.