Feb 09, 2024

Driver hospitalized after she closed her eyes and semi overturned

Posted Feb 09, 2024 9:00 PM

GOVE COUNTY —One person was injured in an accident just after 6:30a.m. Friday in Gove County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2021 Freightliner semi driven by  Jessica Leigh Summers, 42, Beach Bluff, Tennessee, was westbound on Interstate 70 just east of the K216 Grinnell exit.

The driver closed her eyes and the semi swerved into the median.  When she overcorrected the semi rolled onto the drivers side and came to rest in the median.

EMS transported Summers to the Gove County Medical Center. She was properly restrained, according to the KHP.