OSAGE COUNTY —A Newton man was injured in an accident just before 3 p.m. Thursday in Osage County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2018 International semi driven by 31-year-old Eduardo Rivera-Villareal of Newton, was northbound on Interstate 35 three miles south of Williamsburg, when the driver failed to negotiate a curve. The vehicle left the roadway to the left and traveled into the center median.
The driver over corrected. The semi left the roadway to the right, overturned and came to rest in the right ditch.
EMS transported Rivera-Villareal to Overland Park Regional Medical Center. He was properly restrained, according to the KHP.