ABILENE, Kan-  A man, who spent more than fifty years as a radio broadcaster, has died in a pickup crash near Abilene.

Dickinson County Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Swanson said Gary Houser, 79, was killed when the pickup he was driving left Old Highway 40, went into a ditch and rolled several times.

Swanson said the accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The Sheriff’s Office received a call from a passerby of the truck in the ditch.

Houser for years was the morning voice on KABI 1560 radio in Abilene. He also spent several years as the morning host on KINA Radio in Salina.