A teenage driver was killed in a rollover accident Sunday night in Phillips County.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol Fifteen year old Eli T. Lowry of Prairie View, in western Phillips County, was driving a 1996 Dodge 1500 pickup north on County Rd W 1300, 6 miles south of Highway U36.

Lowry was unable to negotiate the curve and lost control of the truck entering the north ditch causing it to roll and come to rest facing east. He was transported to the hospital in Phillipsburg where he died. He was not wearing a seat belt.