Stryker Sports Complex crash: truck drives onto soccer field in Wichita, leaving two dead and 11 hospitalized
The Stryker Sports Complex crash occurred during a youth soccer game in east Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, October 17, killing a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, both from McPherson, Wichita police said. Eleven other people were taken to hospitals following the tragic Stryker Sports Complex crash. The driver is in custody, and police say there is no continuing threat. Officers are still working to determine how and why the truck entered the field.
What happened at the Stryker Sports Complex
Sedgwick County 911 began receiving calls at about 3:25 p.m. Central time regarding the Stryker Sports Complex crash, and police later described the event as a mass casualty incident involving a vehicle. That is a term emergency agencies use when the number of injured people strains normal re...