By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

It’s summertime in Kansas and loaded wheat trucks are rumbling down the roads.

Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Tod Hileman, Troop D in Hays, is reminding drivers to be on the lookout for harvest traffic.

Hileman (@TrooperTodKHP) tweeted a picture Thursday afternoon of a crash between a passenger car and a wheat-laden semi-truck that occurred late Tuesday afternoon in Russell County just off I-70 near Gorham.

Two people were injured in the accident just after 4 p.m.

According to KHP, a car driven by Angela R. Eilts, 36, Gorham, left Interstate 70 at the 175 exit two miles south of Gorham.

The vehicle started to turn north, failed to yield to a northbound semi-truck filled with wheat, and was hit by the semi. The car rolled on the bridge.

Eilts and the semi driver, Zachary G. Dreiling, 20, Gorham, were transported to Russell Regional Medical Center. Two children in the car were not injured.

In his tweet, Hileman wrote “pulling out in front of a loaded harvest truck could have serious consequences.”

“LOOK, and Look Again,” he recommended.