Motor home plunges off bridge into ravine in deadly crash that killed five - including children - and left 13 hospitalised, Northeast Kansas

A motor home crashed into a ravine in northeast Kansas, killing five people and injuring 13.

The Kansas Highway Patrol said the Freightliner motor home was carrying 18 people, both adults and children, and pulling a trailer when the driver lost control.

The vehicle hit a guard rail and was sent tumbling went down a ravine three miles south of Williamsburg in Osage County.

Friends of the people involved in the crash told the Staff Tribune are members of the large extended Kerber family from Jordan, Minnesota, who run an auto shop.

Kathy Lapic is a friend of the Kerber family which included Pauline Kerber, a widow, and 12 children ranging in age from five to young adults. Read More