ELLIS COUNTY—One person died in an accident just after 3a.m. Sunday in Ellis County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Hyundai Sonata driven by Dalton Charles Hall, 20, Savoy, Illinois, was westbound on 8th Street at a high rate of speed.
The driver failed to obey the stop sign at the U.S. 183 Alternate. The car continued westbound over the embankment, went airborne, impacted the ground at the bottom of the embankment and flipped end-over-end coming to rest on its top.
A passenger Jacob Ray Rivera, 19, Selma, California, was pronounced dead at the scene and was transported to Brocks Funeral Home.
EMS transported Hall, and two additional passengers Chelsy Mendoza, 20, and Victoria Angelica Borrego, 21, both of Selma, California to Hays Medical Center. Hall, Mendoza and Borrego, were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.