Accident had different driver
Staff writer
The driver of a pickup that left a Peabody road Nov. 29, overturned, and burst into flames was misidentified in an article in the Dec. 4 edition of the Marion County Record.
The driver information in the article was based on Peabody Police Chief Phillip Crom’s description. An official accident report, requested by the Record, had not been completed.
According to the report, an incomplete version of which now has been supplied to the Record, Mckayla G. Oursler, 26, of Peabody was driving a 2004 Ford F-150 pickup around a curve where 60th Rd. joins Locust St. in Peabody when the pickup left the road to the right and overturned, bursting into flames.
Although Crom earlier said two children were passengers in the pickup, the accident report he provided did not include open record information on the names, ages, or addresses of the children.
Passenger Samantha J. Ratzloff, 27, Lehigh, was seriously injured and airlifted to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita with disabling injuries.
The report, written by officer Eric Watts, said Oursler was driving in violation of license restrictions and under the influence of alcohol, though no test was given to her at the scene of the accident.
Neither woman was wearing a seat belt, Watts wrote.
Watts wrote in his report that the accident was caused by driving under the influence, but Oursler has not been arrested.
Crom said Friday that the accident remained under investigation.