SALINE COUNTY — A man died in an accident just after 9:30p.m. Sunday in Saline County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Chevy Cruz driven by David C. Janis, 40, Chapman, was eastbound on Interstate 70 just east of the Ohio Street exit in the driving lane.

The vehicle hit a pedestrian identified as Cody J. Nordlund, 35, New Port Ritchey, FL., who was walking eastbound in the driving lane of the Interstate.

Nordlund was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Carlson-Geisendorf Funeral Home. Janis was not injured and properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.