Two people killed in car wreck after vehicle reverses on Platte County interstate

Two people were killed Friday after their car reversed on a Kansas City-area interstate and crashed into another vehicle, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Officials responded to the crash around 5 p.m. on southbound Interstate 435 in Platte County, according to a highway patrol crash report.

An investigation said that a 57-year-old Kansas City woman was driving her Mazda Protege on the highway when the car began traveling in reverse. Then, a 22-year-old Lenexa woman struck the Mazda.

Officials pronounced the Mazda’s driver and passenger, a 46-year-old man from Manhattan, Kansas, dead at the scene.

The other driver had minor injuries and was transported to a hospital.