A truck crash in north Lyon County sent a Lecompton man to a Kansas City hospital via airlift Wednesday.
Lyon County Deputy Michael Anderson says the crash in the 1200 block of US Highway 56, almost directly between Admire and Allen, happened just after 9:30 am. Anderson says a box truck was westbound on US-56 when the passenger-side wheels went off the highway. The driver, later identified as 33-year-old Darren Nabus of Lecompton, overcorrected and sent the truck across the highway before it hit a reflector sign for a concrete culvert. The truck then went into a ditch, hit a tree on the passenger side and overturned onto the passenger side.
Nabus was not hurt. A passenger, 36-year-old Sean Berry-Burns, was airlifted by LifeSave KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas, with unspecified injuries. Nabus was wearing his seatbelt, while Berry-Burns was not.
A Kansas Department of Transportation crew flagged drivers around the crash site.
11:30 am Wednesday: Injury crash reported on US-56 between Admire, Allen
Details are pending after a reported injury crash between Admire and Allen on Wednesday.
Emporia Fire/EMS, LifeSave and Lyon County deputies were among the responding agencies after the wreck was reported in the 1200 block of US Highway 56 just after 9:30 am. Early indications are a heavy truck went off the highway into a grove of trees.
Early indications are two patients were observed on site. More details about the crash are developing.
The Kansas Department of Transportation has been using a flagger to direct traffic past the wreck zone.
Click here for KVOE’s YouTube channel, including a YouTube Short video regarding the wreck.
