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Dump truck driver hospitalized following rollover accident

KHPEMPORIA—A dump truck driver was injured in a Thursday afternoon rollover crash in Lyon County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2012 dump truck driven by Mark Buell, 56, Cottonwood Falls, was southbound on I-35 two miles east of Emporia when it left the roadway into the center median, rolled and came to rest partially in the northbound lane.

A 2011 Toyota passenger car driven by  Rex L. Howard, 69, Olathe, was struck by debris from the dump truck while it was rolling.

Buell was transported to Newman Regional Medical Center.

Howard and two passengers in the Toyota were not injured.

The KHP reported that all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

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