KANSAS CITY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating an accident that took the life of a teen.
Just after 10a.m. Thursday, officers and emergency crews responded to the Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park in the 2100 block of SE Hamblen Road on the report of an injured person, according to Lee's Summit Police.
When officers arrived, they located a 16-year-old employee of a private company who had become pinned between a tractor trailer rig and its trailer.
EMS transported the injured boy to a local trauma center where he was pronounced dead. Traffic Investigators are working to reconstruct the scene and gather evidence.
Police have not released the name of the teen.
The incident occurred on property within the Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park leased from the City of Lee’s Summit by a private third-party company.