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Obituary- Hudson, Douglas 2

Car crash kills Rossville man
By TIM HRENCHIR
Capital-Journal law enforcement writer
A Rossville man died at a Topeka hospital Wednesday afternoon of injuries suffered when he was thrown from a car in a two-car crash at S.W. 29th and Auburn Road.

Douglas B. Hudson, 20, died about 5:16 p.m. at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center, a nursing supervisor there said.

District Coroner W. Wike Scamman said Hudson suffered multiple internal injuries.

The driver of the second car in the collision, Cynthia A. Pfannenstiel, 36, 8050 S.W. Auburn Road, was listed in fair condition at Stormont- Vail. The nursing supervisor said she suffered a broken arm and cuts.

A passenger in Pfannenstiel’s vehicle, Nathaniel T. Lira, 13, also of 8050 S.W. Auburn Road, was treated for minor injuries at Stormont-Vail then released.

Shawnee County Sheriff’s Deputy Buford John¬son said the crash was reported at 1:15 p.m. He said Pfannenstiel was driving a 1986 Dodge Daytona south on Auburn when it hit the right front of a Ford car driven by Hudson, which was heading west on 29th.

Johnson said the crash was still being investigated late Wednesday.

The Pfannenstiel car had the right of way, according to Sheriff's Lt. Bill Hudson. Auburn Road has a stop sign at the intersection.

Johnson said that after the impact the Hudson car slid sideways into a telephone splice box and a utility pole at the southwest corner of the intersection.

It overturned and landed on its top in a ditch, facing southwest.

The impact from the Hudson car severed the utility pole about 20 feet above the ground, but wires kept the pole from falling to the ground, rescue workers said.

Hudson was thrown through the driver’s side window of the vehicle. Rescue workers said his body was partially wrapped around the utility pole when they arrived.

Hudson s pulse initially was restored at the scene by Jim Strohm, assistant fire chief for Mission Township.

Strohm said he was in a fire department pumper truck about 1 1/2 miles north of the scene when the crash was reported.

He went to the crash site and per-formed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Hudson until the man's heart resumed beating after less than a minute.

Pfannenstiel and Lira were wearing seat belts, but Douglas Hudson was not, according to a Sheriff’s Department records clerk.

The three were taken by two sepa-rate Medevac MidAmerica ambulances to Stormont-Vail.

Because Hudson was in surgery before he died at Stormont-Vail, Scamman said, an autopsy might not be necessary in the case.

Scamman was to decide today whether to do an autopsy.

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