NESS CITY – One man died and one was injured in an accident just after 10 a.m. on Friday in Ness County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a Sterling Tanker Truck driven by Frank Slade Zamarripa Jr., 45, Ellinwood, was westbound on Kansas 96 ten miles west of Ness City.

The truck rear-ended a 2009 Peterbilt semi that was slowing to turn north on G road. The semi rolled.

Zamarripa Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Fitzgerald Funeral Home.

The semi driver Anthony Dale Durbin, 58, Ransom, was transported to Ness County Hospital.

The KHP reported Durbin was properly restrained and it is unknown if Zamarripa Jr., was wearing a seat belt.1