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One Injured After Driver Falls Asleep

A Kansas City woman was injured in an accident that happened when another driver fell asleep.  State Troopers report 53-year-old Renee Lawson of Kansas City was taken to North Kansas City Hospital following the accident on I-435, Saturday at about 10:50 pm.  According to the report, Lawson was a passenger in a vehicle that was northbound, driven by 52-year-old Manny Lawson of Kansas City.  That vehicle was struck by another northbound vehicle driven by 21-year-old Chloe Johnson of Hamilton.  The report states Johnson had fallen asleep and drifted into the Lawson vehicle, then overturned.

Johnson was not wearing a seatbelt.  Neither driver was injured.