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Kansas man hospitalized; semi forces Mercedes into a ditch

KHPSHAWNEE COUNTY – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after noon on Thursday in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2016 Freightliner semi driven by Mitchell Thornburrow, 22, Manhattan, was westbound on U.S. 24 two miles west of Rossville.

The semi went off the road into the right ditch. The driver overcorrected causing the truck to go on its side and a 1991 Mercedes Benz 190-E driven by Michael McGinnis, 50, Topeka, into the ditch.

McGinnis was transported to Stormont Vail.

Thornburrow was not injured. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

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