HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Early Saturday morning, officers with the Hutchinson Police Department, Hutchinson Fire and Reno County EMS were dispatched to the 400 block of North Plum in reference to a single-vehicle collision involving a utility pole.

Preliminary investigation by police indicates a black 1997 Lexus was traveling southbound on Plum at a high rate of speed and struck the east curb line. The vehicle continued into two utility poles and struck a building in the same block. One occupant was located in the vehicle and was transported to a medical helicopter and taken to Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in critical condition.

Witnesses say one, possibly two white males, one being the driver of the vehicle, fled the scene on foot.

The identity of the passenger transported to St. Francis is being withheld pending notification of the family.

The case will be forwarded to the Traffic Bureau of the Hutchinson Police Department for further investigation and anyone with information is asked to call either Reno County Crime Stoppers at 620-694-2666 or the Hutchinson Police Department at 620-694-2816.

The accident occurred just before 2:30 a.m.