INDEPENDENCE, MO, (April 18, 2026) – A 19-year-old Kansas City man has died days after being injured in a single-vehicle crash shortly after midnight Saturday in Independence, authorities said.
According to Independence police, Cazh’mere Green was a passenger in a Jeep Grand Cherokee that left the roadway near East Truman Road and Glenwood Avenue. The vehicle traveled off a grass embankment and struck a large tree.
Green sustained serious injuries in the crash and was transported to a hospital, where he later succumbed to those injuries on Wednesday.
The driver of the Jeep was also seriously injured and hospitalized.
The crash remains under investigation.
