EFFINGHAM – A semi truck driver was injured in an accident just after 9 a.m. on Tuesday in Atchison County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Freightliner semi driven by Matthew F. Zuehlke, 41, Coloma, WI., was eastbound on Kansas 116 at Edwards Road four miles south and three and a half miles west of Effingham.

The truck went off the road and overturned in the ditch.

Zuehlke was transported to Atchison County Hospital.

The KHP reported he was properly restrained at the time of the accident.