Highway 83 Crash Injures Sublette Boy

The Kansas Highway Patrol reports a Sublette boy was taken to the hospital after a Highway 83 crash Tuesday afternoon. Twelve year old Dillon Berg was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital in Garden City after an injury from the wreck. A Dodge 2002 pickup was headed north on 83 eight miles north of Sublette when the car slowed to turn left on Haskell County Road 110. A 2004 Chevrolet Suburban containing the Berg family was headed north on 83 and began to pass the pickup when realizing the pickup was turning. The the driver of the Suburban tried to steer back to the right and rear ended a trailer which the pickup was pulling. There were five people in the Suburban but only one was injured.

The crash occurred at about 1:50 Tuesday afternoon.