Oct 08, 2025

Sheriff IDs Kansas motorcyclist who died in crash

Posted Oct 08, 2025 12:30 PM

PLATTE COUNTY—A motorcyclist who died in an accident just after 4p.m. Sunday has been identified as 38-year-old Kyle Jonsson of Leavenworth, according to a statement from the Platte County Sheriff.

A Kansas man was killed Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle crash along a rural road in Platte County, according to the Platte County Sheriff’s Office.

First responders responded to the crash along Farley Hampton Road and Baker Road, where they found a motorcycle in the grass on the southwest corner of the intersection. Jonsson was discovered about 20 yards from the motorcycle. EMS transported him to a hospital where he was pronounced deceased.