GOVE COUNTY— Two people were injured in an accident just after 11a.m. Thursday in Gove County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Toyota Camry driven by Cameron Louis Otto, 18, Elkhorn, NE., was eastbound on Old US Highway 40 one half mile east of Interstate 70.
The driver lost control of the vehicle. It left the roadway to the right, entered the south ditch and traveled into a field.
EMS transported Otto and a passenger Baylor William Bakhit, 18, Goodyear, AZ., to the hospital in Colby. They were both properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.