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Driver hospitalized after semi rolls off I-70 in Sherman County

GOODLAND – A semi driver was injured in an accident just after 7p.m. on Saturday in Sherman County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Peterbilt semi pulling an empty cattle trailer and driven by Jon Preston Hickox, 34, Spring Creek, NV., was westbound on Interstate 70 eight miles west of Goodland.

The truck left the roadway to the right striking a guardrail.

The truck road the guardrail for 150 yards, left the road, entered the north ditch and rolled.

Hickox was transported to Goodland Regional Medical Center.

He was properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP.

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