TOPEKA –One person was injured in an accident just after 5 p.m. on Sunday in Shawnee County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 semi driven by Overstreet, Jerry I Overstreet, 74, Jacksonville, FL., was west bound on Interstate 70 at 8th street in Topeka.
The truck was traveling too fast for conditions. The driver lost control on the wet roadway. The truck jackknifed, left the roadway to the right, struck the barrier wall and the exit 352B sign and a wrong way sign.
A passenger in the truck’s sleeper James Overstreet, 75, Jacksonville, FL., was transported to St. Francis Medical Center.
The driver was not injured.