KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 16-year-old boy was killed Tuesday night after being hit by a truck at a highway intersection in Basehor, Kansas.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, just after 9:15 p.m., Cody L. Lamping was driving a 2005 Toyota car southbound on 155th Street when he drove through a red light at State Avenue/U.S. 24 Highway.
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At the same time he entered the intersection, a 68-year-old man driving a Chevrolet pickup truck was heading westbound on U.S. 24 when he hit the driver’s side of Lamping’s car.
KHP said the pickup truck was driving at “highway speed.”
Lamping was taken to Providence Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead by hospital staff at about 10:20 p.m.
The driver of the pickup had minor injuries in the crash.
