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Two hospitalized after truck hits swather in the snow

Screen Shot 2014-07-03 at 5.13.15 AMELLINWOOD – Two Kansas men were injure in an accident just before 10 a.m. on Thursday in Barton County.

The Kansas  Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Ford truck driven by was Kevin Lynn Beagley, 45, Lyons, was westbound on U.S. 56 one mile east of Ellinwood.

The driver lost control in the snow. The truck entered the north ditch and struck a Hesston swather that was legally parked.

Beagley and a passenger Frederick Allen Bannon, 55, Lyons were transported to the hospital in Ellinwood.

The KHP reported Bannon was not wearing a seat belt.

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