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Kansas man hospitalized after head-on crash UPDATE

Friday morning crash
Friday morning crash

SALINA- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 10 a.m. on Friday in Saline County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Buick driven by Delbert D. Shamblin, 80, Portland, OR., was traveling southbound in the north bound lanes of U.S. 81 just before Interstate 70.

The Buick hit a Cadillac driven by Timothy W. Siegel, Minneapolis, head-on.

Siegel was transported to Salina Regional Medical Center.

Shamblin was not injured.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP.

While the clean up from the head-on crash was underway, a box rental truck towing a car, lost the vehicle off of the towing trailer.

The vehicle, in backed up traffic, were using the exit ramp to westbound Interstate 70.

Car lost from the towing trailer
Car lost from the towing trailer

The car traveled across the northbound U.S. 81 entrance into a field east of the northbound ramp. No one was injured.

Check Hays Post for additional details as they become available.

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