SMITH COUNTY – One person was injured in an accident just before 4 p.m. on Wednesday in Smith County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1997 Mercury passenger vehicle driven by Gwen R. Eads, 55, Sterling, IL., was eastbound on U.S.36 at Kansas 8.

The driver turned on the vehicle’s right turn signal and began to turn right and then turned left without signaling.

An eastbound semi struck the Mercury in the driver’s side door. The Mercury came to rest in the field north of U.S. 36.

Eads was transported to Smith County Hospital. The semi driver from West Virginia was not injured.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.