WALLACE COUNTY—One person was injured in an accident just before 2:30p.m. Friday in Wallace County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2020 Peterbilt semi driven by John Frederick Lattimer, 39, Caldwell, Texas, was northbound on Kansas 27 nine miles north of Sharon Springs.
The semi left the roadway to the right, struck a KDOT sign post in the east ditch and returned to the roadway.
It traveled off the road again, struck a barbed wire fence, destroy multiple fence posts and came rest in the west ditch before the driver attempted to re-enter the roadway southbound and became stuck.
EMS transported Lattimer to the hospital in Goodland. The KHP did not have seat belt usage information.