Ellsworth, Kansas — A Hartley man was taken to the hospital after an accident near Ellsworth, Kansas on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that at about 1:45 p.m., 70-year-old Rodney Keller of Hartley was driving a 2016 Western Star semi pulling a 2021 Great Dane trailer eastbound on Kansas Highway 156, just south of Ellsworth, Kansas.
The report says that the semi drifted off the right side of the road and struck the bridge rail before going off of the roadway and down a steep embankment. The trooper says the truck then went up a hill, went airborne at the hillcrest, then back down another steep embankment before coming to rest in a soybean field.
An ambulance took Keller to Ellsworth County Medical Center in Ellsworth. His injuries were suspected to be serious.
Ellsworth is in central Kansas, about three hours west of Kansas City or about an hour and forty-five minutes northwest of Wichita.
