CENTERVILLE – Two semi drivers were injured in an accident just before 11a.m. on Friday in Linn County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 International Semi driven by Jimmy Dale Simons, 56, Mound City, pulled out of the Rock Quarry going southbound on County Road 1077 just south of Centerville.

A 2012 Freightliner semi driven by Willis Gerard Birchard, 50, Paola, was driving southbound and rear-ended the International.

Simons was transported Miami County Medical Center. Birchard was transported to KU Medical Center.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident.