ELLIS COUNTY —Two people were injured in an accident just after 5:30a.m. Friday in Ellis County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Lexus driven by Douglas Wade Bearden, 56, Longmont, Colorado, was eastbound on Interstate 70 one mile east of Commerce Parkway.
The vehicle traveled off the road into the median, jumped a crossover, rolled and came to rest on the drivers side.
EMS transported Bearden and a passenger Tyahnie Shaddid Kitrina Bearden, 19, San Antonio, Texas, to Hays Medical Center. The driver was later air-lifted to a hospital in Denver. Both were properly restrained, according to the KHP.