BOURBON COUNTY—One person died in an accident just after 3:30p.m. Friday in Bourbon County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Ford F150 driven by Michael Pete Troxel, 64, Erie, was westbound on Kansas 39 four miles north of Hepler.
The pickup left the road to the right. The driver overcorrected back onto K39, traveled off the road to the left, overturned landed on its roof in the south ditch.
Troxel was pronounced dead at the scene and was transported to Cheney Witt Funeral Home. He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.