13-Year-Old Driver, 8-Year-Old Passenger Hurt in Crash
KSAL Staff - Tue 08:41 PM 04/24/2012
A 13-year-old-driver driving a truck pulling a trailer and an 8-year-old passenger are hurt in crash in North Central Kansas.
A 13-year-old boy driving a truck pulling a trailer and an 8-year-old passenger are hurt in crash in North Central Kansas.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 13-year-old Joshua Mueller of Clifton was driving a truck East on K9 Highway towing a trailer. He lost control of the vehicle and left the south edge of the roadway. Mueller then overcorrected, entered the north ditch, struck embankment and overturned.
Troopers say that Mueller who was buckled up, was hurt. An unbuckled passenger, 8-year-old Dillon Willbrant of Clifton, was also hurt. Both were transported to the hospital in Clay Center.
A second passenger, 11-year-old Austin Morgan of Clifton was also transported to the same hospital with possible injures. Troopers say that Morgan was buckled up.
The crash happened during the noon hour on Monday, 2.2 miles east of Clifton in rural Clay County.
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amywho
Tuesday 24 April 2012 22:47 Report this comment
see and its because of stupid things like this that the feds are trying to keep kids from working on farms. Most parents would have never let their 13 year old drive a truck and trailer on a highway with other children in the vehicle. But stuff like this is what they read and they think that farm life is too dangerous for children.
THEENFORCER
Wednesday 25 April 2012 09:27 Report this comment
Parents should be arrested for endangering the lives of their children. Why has that not been done?
Oldguy
Wednesday 25 April 2012 13:39 Report this comment
You know we have laws about driving on the highway in Kansas, its not like they were driving in a wheatfield. Yes if the parents did know about their kids driving on the state highway system, the should be arrested, children taken away for endangering a child, and the Parents sent to the Salina Jail where they have a chance of dying overnite.
THEENFORCER
Wednesday 25 April 2012 23:21 Report this comment
Why have they not been arrested definately child abuse.
KISSmethod
Thursday 26 April 2012 06:10 Report this comment
I agree that the 11 and 8 year old shouldn't have been in the truck, and that the 13 year-old shouldn't have been on a highway hauling a trailer. Aside from that, I don't think this is a case of child abuse. Taking kids away from loving parents that made a bad decision is child abuse. I started learning to drive on my grandparent’s farm as soon as I was old enough to reach the pedals and see over the steering wheel. Never on roads, just out in the pasture, and I wasn’t much older than that when I had to learn how to drive a manual and pull a trailer to pick up hay bales. Early on, I had developed the skills to drive and control a vehicle, so when I went to get my actual license, I was a confident driver.
Iamgonnagetu
Thursday 26 April 2012 08:09 Report this comment
So kiss tell me the difference between the people arrested for beating their kids sometimes killing them and these parents giving a young kid keys to a truck and then letting other kids in the vehicle and all could of been killed. Times have changed since you were a kid.