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Kan. concrete truck driver hospitalized after accident

Screen Shot 2014-07-03 at 5.13.15 AMKANSAS CITY- A Kansas cement truck driver was injured in an accident just before 10:30 a.m. on Monday in Wyandotte County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1996 Chevy pickup pulling a flatbed trailer and driven by Michael Wayne Smith, 30, Harrisonville, Miss., was westbound on the ramp from Interstate 70 to Central Street.

The Chevy merged onto Central and made an unsafe lane change to the left and failed to yield to a westbound cement truck driven by Ricky V. Stone, 55, Louisburg. The cement truck struck the side of the pickup and overturned.

Stone was transported to KU Medical Center for treatment. Smith was not injured.

The KHP reported both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

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