SHERIDAN COUNTY – A Rooks County man was injured in an accident just before 6 a.m. on Thursday in Sheridan County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Subaru wagon driven by Shawn E. Preister, 56, Woodston, was east bound on U.S. 24 seventeen miles west of Hill City.

The Subaru traveled left of center and struck a 2004 Chevy Truck driven by Cody Thomas Groth, 24, Hill City, which was west bound on U.S. 24.

Preister was transported to the Rooks County Health Center.

Groth was not wearing a seat belt and not injured according to the KHP.