Man dies in Kansas crash after truck drives into creek and catches on fire
A 60-year-old man died after the truck he was driving left the road and caught fire in a creek bed on Tuesday in Dickinson County.
Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs identify the victim as Jerri Garrett of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.
The accident was reported at 1:50 p.m. along U.S. Highway 77 roughly two miles north of Herington. Garrett was heading north on the highway in a 2020 Ford F-250 truck when the truck went left of the center line and into a ditch, the report said.
The truck drove through a pasture and came to rest in creek bed, where it caught on fire. Garrett died at the scene of the crash, the KHP said.
Herington is roughly 84 miles northeast of Wichita.
Eduardo Castillo
The Wichita Eagle