GARNETT –A semi driver was injured in an accident just before 4p.m. on Friday in Anderson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Feightliner semi driven by Hamza Jama Gorod, 29, Kansas City, was northbound on U.S. 169 five miles south of Garnet.

The semi left the roadway on the west side. The driver tried to maneuver the truck back onto the roadway. He over corrected, went back into the ditch and then into a pond.

Gorod was transported to the hospital in Garnett. He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.