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# Deadly single-vehicle crash occurs at 11th and Plum Thursday morning
- URL: https://www.citizenjournal.us/deadly-single-vehicle-crash-occurs-at-11th-and-plum-thursday-morning/
- Published: 2026-08-27T16:37:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-27T16:37:47.000Z
- Description: The Hutchinson Police Department identified the driver in a media release posted to its Facebook page Thursday morning.
- Author: Rica Simpson
- Tags: hutch, #news

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Ginger M. McClanahan, 52, of Hutchinson, passed away early Thursday, Aug. 27, after her car left 11th Avenue for an unknown reason and struck the digital Cosmosphere sign at Plum Street, police said. She was driving east on 11th Avenue and was the vehicle's sole occupant; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Hutchinson police, the Hutchinson Fire Department and Reno County EMS were dispatched to the intersection at 2:10 a.m.

The Hutchinson Police Department Traffic Unit is investigating the crash, according to the department's media release. Anyone with information can call Traffic Officers L. Hammond #195 or J. Gilmore #135 at (620) 694-2854.

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