MCPHERSON – A Kansas man died in an accident just before 4 p.m. on Wednesday in McPherson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2000 semi driven by John Douglas Schrock, 48, Hesston, was southbound on Kansas153.

The truck was traveling too fast to negotiate a curve in the roadway, the KHP reported. It hit the median and rolled across the northbound lanes into the east ditch and caught fire.

Schrock died at the scene and the truck burned to the shell.