State v. Pitchford

Foth, C.J.:

This is an interlocutory appeal taken by the State from the district court’s order suppressing the results of the defendant’s blood test on the basis of the physician-patient privilege under K.S.A. 60-427.

On May 26, 1984, Butler County Sheriff s officers, responding to a report of a one-car accident on Highway 96, located a wrecked car just off the highway. Upon arriving at the accident site, these officers learned that the driver of the car was not at the scene of the accident. This information was radioed to other officers responding to the accident. One of these additional…