Kansas woman loses fiance and son in five-vehicle crash
RENO COUNTY, Kansas (AP) — A Kansas woman lost both her fiance and her 13-year-old son in a five-vehicle crash that took place in Reno County on Friday.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Lacy Lomax was supposed to marry Alexander Dennis next month and her son Teagan Lomax was set to be one of the groomsmen, but now both are dead.
“I’m literally fighting to breathe,” Lomax said on Facebook. “My heart will never be the same.”
Lomax said her son was a smart, funny and athletic eighth-grader at Reno Valley Middle School in Nickerson where he was the starting quarterback for the football team.
She said Dennis, who worked as a welder in Hutchinson, was a fellow recovering addict who joined Lacy Lomax as an active advocate for other addicts with the Kansas Recovery Network.
Dennis and Teagan Lomax were returning home to South Hutchinson when the crash happened on K-14 around 4 p.m. Friday. Southbound traffic had slowed before a 17-year-old Nickerson boy driving a Ford Mustang slammed into the back of Dennis’ Mitsubishi Galant. The impact sent Dennis’ car into the northbound lanes where it was struck by an oncoming semi truck.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said Dennis’ car then hit a trailer being towed behind an SUV, and the semi jackknifed onto the shoulder of the highway and struck a pickup truck.
The 60-year-old semi driver complained of pain after the crash, but the drivers of the Mustang and pickup were unhurt, none of the six people in the SUV were injured.
