An Americus man is dead following a crash in Chase County Wednesday morning.
The accident, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol, was reported just after 8:50 am at mile post 8.1 on Kansas Highway 150, 10.5 miles East of Marion. The KHP crash log reports that a 2021 International semi tractor driven by 62-year-old Tommy Ray Miller of Americus was traveling westbound when for unlisted reasons the vehicle left the roadway to the right.
The semi then entered the ditch, crashed through two barbed wire fences and came to a rest in a field upright on its tires. Miller was listed as suffering fatal injuries in the KHP crash log, however, additional details were not provided.
Miller was wearing a safety restraint at the time of the accident.
