The Kansas Highway Patrol continues to investigate a Brown County highway crash in which a Washburn University faculty member and his wife died, Brown County Attorney Kevin M. Hill told The Capital-Journal.
Troopers were expected after concluding their investigation to forward reports to Hill’s office, which would then decide whether any criminal charges would be filed.
Dave Provorse, 64, and his wife, Marcia L. Provorse, 62, both of Topeka, were killed just after 8 a.m. Dec. 20 when the driver of a semi-trailer failed to stop at a stop sign and broadsided the vehicle Dave Provorse was driving on US-75 highway at its intersection with K-20 highway in southern Brown County, said a Kansas Highway Patrol accident report.
Dave Provorse was an associate professor at Washburn, where he formerly served 13 years as chairman of the psychology department.
Dave Provorse, an associate professor in Washburn University’s psychology department, and his wife, Marcia, died Dec. 20 in a Brown County highway crash.
What happened in accident involving Washburn University professor?
A KHP accident report said Dave Provorse was driving a 2019 Ford F-150 pickup truck southbound on US-75 when it was struck broadside by a 2016 Freightliner semi-trailer driven by Edward C. Bullmaster, 26, of St. Joseph, Missouri, who had been westbound on K-20 and had failed to stop at the stop sign at its intersection with US-75.
Both vehicles came to rest in the ditch just west of US-75 highway, with the semi-trailer’s having rolled onto its side in that ditch, the accident report said.
The Provorses were pronounced deceased at the scene.
Bullmaster suffered a suspected minor injury and was taken to Sabetha Community Hospital, the accident report said.
It said Bullmaster’s one passenger — Clay J. Lutz, 36, of Rushville, Missouri — also suffered a suspected minor injury and was taken to that same hospital.
Everyone involved in the crash was wearing a safety restraint, the accident report said.
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This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Kansas crash that killed Washburn faculty member being investigated