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Decatur County is Scene of Weekend Fatality

rollover with cop lightsA Florence, Colorado man was killed in a one vehicle accident at 11:40 p.m. Saturday in Decatur County.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 1997 Toyota Tacoma driven by Gordon Gail Gibson, 23, was southbound on Kansas Highway 23, two miles south of Leoville, when the truck went off the right side of the road, came back onto the roadway and then rolled.

Gibson was not wearing a seat belt.

A passenger in the vehicle, Parker James Gibson, 22, Florence, was injured and taken to Decatur Health System in Oberlin.

Troopers say Parker Gibson was wearing a seat belt.

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