Kansas cement truck driver hits loose sand, rolls vehicle in fatal wreck: official

A 58-year-old Kansas man died Thursday when the cement truck he was driving went into a ditch and “rolled numerous times” in Barber County, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Anthony R. Peek of Medicine Lodge died in the wreck. The wreck happened in a rural part of the county about six miles south of the city of Coats. He was headed south on McAdoo Road and cresting over a hill when the “right front tire caught loose sand at the edge of the roadway and the vehicle was pulled closer to the ditch,” a KHP trooper wrote in the crash log.

Peek over-corrected and went into the east ditch, causing the 2013 Kenworth truck to overturn. The truck rolled multiple times before it came to rest on its “wheels facing North-West,” the trooper wrote.

The wreck happened around 10:05 a.m. No one else was in the truck.