Authorities ID man, woman who died in head-on crash with stolen pickup after police chase

The Kansas Highway Patrol has identified 19-year-old Nathaniel Ashworth of Wichita and 20-year-old Alyna Elder of Rose Hill as the people who died in a collision Sunday.

The crash was reported shortly before 3 p.m. at the intersection of 63rd St. South and 103rd St. East, just east of Derby. Minutes before, authorities had called off a police chase that involved a stolen truck.

The chase started when an officer spotted the stolen pickup at Kellogg and Andover Road. The officer attempted a traffic stop, but the driver did not stop. The truck went south on Greenwich Road, then turned onto 63rd Street South. It hit a guard rail and lost part of a tire, but continued traveling west toward Derby, Andover police chief Buck Buchanan said at a briefing Sunday.

Authorities chased the truck for about seven minutes before calling it off due to heavy traffic.

The truck at some point crossed the center-line, sideswiped a vehicle and then hit a 1999 Chevy s10 being driven by Elder with Ashworth in the passenger seat. They both died at the scene, according to the crash log.

The driver of the 2009 Ford F-150 that was sideswiped was not injured, the report said.

Buchanan did not name the driver of the stolen vehicle Sunday. The KHP crash log showed a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck that had been reported stolen was driven by 19-year-old Jimmy Guinn III of Augusta.

Guinn was taken to Wesley Medical Center with serious injuries, the report said.

Buchanan said Sunday that police were talking with Butler County and Sedgwick County attorneys about any potential charges.