2:35 p.m. UPDATE  MANHATTAN- One person was hospitalized after a truck hit a tractor just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday in Riley County.

 

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Ford E350 driven by Halston Puett, 20, Topeka, was westbound on Interstate 70 fifteen miles east of Manhattan.

 

For an unknown reason the truck left the roadway and struck a 2009 New Holland farm tractor that was mowing the grass on the north shoulder of the westbound Interstate.

 

 

Puett was transported to Mercy Regional Medical Center

 

The KHP reported the tractor driver Myron Sessions, 40, Alma, was possibly injured. It does not indicate he was transported for treatment.

 

The KHP reported Puett was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

 

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MANHATTAN-   EMS, Riley County Police, Manhattan Fire and the Kansas Highway Patrol are at Interstate 70 mile marker 317 in Riley County  where an  injury accident between a semi-truck and a mower has backed up traffic in the west bound lanes. East bound traffic is also slow in the area.