Crash in Kansas City kills pedestrian, shuts down I-70 lanes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City say an early morning hit-and-run crash Wednesday on Interstate 70 killed a pedestrian and shut down a stretch of the interstate’s eastbound lanes for nearly two hours. The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday when a vehicle hit a man walking on the interstate. Police say the vehicle fled the scene and that the man was hit by several other vehicles, including a semitrailer. Police later announced that a person suspected to be the driver of the first vehicle that hit the man had been arrested. Police did not give that person’s name or the name of the man killed. The eastbound lanes of I-70 at Brooklyn Avenue were closed until shortly after 6 a.m.