Garden City man, 21, killed in Highway 50 crash near Deerfield

A 21-year-old Garden City man was killed early Saturday when the truck he drove veered off Highway 50 and went airborne, about a mile and a half west of Deerfield, the Kansas Highway Patrol said in a crash report.

Gerardo Gonzalez-Rivera was eastbound in a 2001 Chevy when the truck left Highway 50 on the left side around 4:45 a.m., the report said. Gonzalez-Rivera overcorrected, swerved across both lanes of traffic and went into a ditch, then shot across the front yard of a home into a field.

There, the truck skidded sideways and went airborne. It touched the ground four times before landing in the field, the report said. At some point, Gonzalez-Rivera was ejected from the truck, the highway patrol said.

Deerfield is about 18 miles west of Garden City in Kearny County.

This story was originally published October 18, 2014 at 5:27 PM with the headline "Garden City man, 21, killed in Highway 50 crash near Deerfield."