ELLIS COUNTY – A semi driver was injured in an accident just before 8p.m. on Friday in Ellis County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2017 Freightliner semi driven by Nathan Ryan Roberts, 38, Roseville, CA., was westbound on Interstate 70 at Commerce Parkway when the driver heard the fiberglass hood crack.

It flew open and off and the truck flipped over on its drivers side.

Roberts was transported to Hays Medical Center. He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.