2 killed, 10 hurt in crash on Kansas Turnpike near Mulvane

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - January 6 update: A grandmother and her one-month-old grandson were identified by their family as the two people killed in a crash on the Kansas Turnpike last week.

A family of nine was traveling in a van with a trailer around midnight Thursday when it overturned. Another vehicle was traveling southbound on the turnpike and crashed into the overturned van.

Two of the nine people in the van were killed, 58-year-old Ernestina Eumana-Alvarez and 1-month-old Christian Gutierrez, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The other seven were hospitalized for serious and minor injuries.

The family set up a GoFundMe to help return Ernestina and Christian’s bodies to their native home in Mexico and to cover the medical expenses for Christian’s mother, who reportedly suffered critical injuries.

The three people in the other vehicle involved in the crash were treated for minor injuries.

9 a.m. update: The Kansas Highway Patrol clarified information about the child killed in the crash.

The KHP lists a child’s age as “0″ when the child is killed -- that doesn’t necessarily mean the child involved was an infant.

The KHP said it could not verify the age of the child killed for privacy reasons. It also said it could not confirm how the two people who died in the crash were related.

Two people were killed, and 11 others were injured in a crash on the Kansas Turnpike early Thursday.

The crash happened just after midnight near the Kansas Star Casino exit on southbound I-35 in Sumner County. The turnpike reopened at around 7:30 a.m. Thursday.

A van with a trailer overturned in the southbound lanes. A second vehicle attempted to avoid a crash but struck the van.

According to the KHP crash log, 58-year-old Ernestina Eumana of Minneapolis, Minn., and a child passenger in the van were killed.

An initial report from Mulvane Fire and Rescue said one person was killed. It said a semi hauling cattle was involved in the crash, but the KHP crash long did not list that as one of the vehicles in the crash.

Seven other people in the van sustained at least minor injuries. Three people in the other vehicle, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, had minor injuries.