A 51-year-old man was taken to the hospital Tuesday with a moderate injury after a crash involving a tractor in Harrison County.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Gale Richardson, of Ridgeway was driving a John Deere 6400 Tractor westbound on MO Route UU about 5 miles northeast of Blythedale around 2 p.m.  He drove off the south side of the roadway and hit an embankment then came back across the roadway and ran off the north side and hit a ditch where the tractor came to rest.

Richardson was taken by ambulance to the Harrison County Hospital with what was described at the scene as a moderate injury.