Dec 16, 2020

Woman from Hays hospitalized after pickup slides, flips

Posted Dec 16, 2020 1:00 PM

ELLSWORTH COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just  before 4 p.m. Tuesday in Ellsworth County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Dodge Dakota driven by Patricia Yvonne Schmid, 60, Hays, was westbound on Kansas 156 ten miles west of Kansas 14.

The driver lost control of the vehicle on the slick roadway. The pickup traveled off the right hand side of the roadway, rotated approximately 180 degrees, struck a concrete culvert, flipped  over and came to rest on its wheels in the ditch.

EMS transported Schmid to Clara Barton Hospital.  A passenger — Sarah Lorraine Kyner, 38, Hoisington — was not transported for treatment. Both were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.