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Winter Weather January 19, 2019 · Miami, Kansas

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What the National Weather Service wrote

A snow plow driver for the Kansas Department of Transportation was killed Saturday morning after his vehicle crashed during snow removal operations.

From KWCH12: The Kansas Highway Patrol says 25-year-old Stephen Windler, of Paola, was traveling south on U.S. 69 south of 207th Street in Johnson County when he turned his plow to the right. He crashed into the grass and fell out of the vehicle.

EMS pronounced Windler dead on the scene. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

Link to the story: https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Snow-Plow-driver-dies-after-fatal-accident--504597511.html .

The wider storm

On the morning of January 19, 2019 a snow plow driver clearing roads from a marginal snow event was killed when his snow plow left the road and overturned.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 795760. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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