A 74-year-old passenger died after a speeding sports car triggered a three-vehicle crash just after 4:45 p.m. Wednesday near 34th and Merriam Ln. in Kansas City, Kansas, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. The collision left Roger Stroble, of Kansas City, Kansas, with life-threatening injuries before he was later pronounced dead by medical staff.

Troopers said Sidney Kile, 28, of Olathe, was speeding west on Merriam Ln. in a 2019 McLaren 570S when he struck a 2017 Honda Accord driven by Anne Wohl, 37, of Lenexa, as she tried to turn north onto 34th St. The force of the impact pushed the McLaren into a 2018 Ford F-250 pickup truck driven by Aaron Stich, 47, of Brookline Station, who had been stopped behind Wohl’s vehicle.

Kile was taken to the University of Kansas Medical Center with suspected serious injuries. Wohl and Stich were not injured. Troopers said all parties were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash, which remains under investigation.

The wreck happened in Wyandotte County and quickly shifted from a traffic collision to a fatal case. The patrol has not released any finding beyond its initial account, but the sequence it described leaves little doubt about the immediate cause: excessive speed in a high-powered car, a turning sedan, and a stopped truck caught in the chain reaction.

For anyone following local news in Kansas, the crash adds a grim note to a week already crowded with headlines, from baseball coverage such as Red Sox - Royals and Redsox beat Royals to weather alerts like Tornado Watch drives Kansas schools, library closings and shelter opening. But this one is different. It is not about a game or a storm. It is about one passenger who did not make it home and an investigation that still has to determine whether anything else can be learned from the moments before the McLaren hit the Honda.