GRAINFIELD – Two people were injured in an accident just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday in Gove County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Volkswagen Beetle driven by Vanessa D. Hesser, 19, Hill City, was westbound on Interstate 70 two miles west of Grainfield.

The vehicle’s left tire blew out. The driver lost control of the vehicle. It entered the north ditch and rolled.

Hesser and a passenger James Brown-Bannon, 31, Childress, TX., were transported to Gove County Medical Center.

A two-week-old child in the vehicle was in a car seat and not injured.
All were properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP.