SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating an accident that took the life of a Kansas teen just after 11p.m. on Friday.

The Saline County Sheriff reported a Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle driven by Dakota Harr, 19, Ellsworth, was traveling with a group of motorcyclists near Airport Road and Water Well south of Salina.

Harr left the group at a high rate of speed, failed to stop at the intersection, struck the lid of a water pump station, lost control of the motorcycle and landed about 600 feet from the road in a cornfield, according to the sheriff.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.