COLBY – A man died in an accident just after 8 p.m. on Thursday in Thomas County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Billy M. Garcia, 63, Fort Smith, AR., was westbound on U.S. 24 four miles east of Colby.

The vehicle traveled across the eastbound lane into the south ditch, across County Road 27, struck a fence a power pole.

Garcia was transported to Citizens Medical Center where he died.
He was properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP