By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
GYPSUM - A Gypsum man was injured in a single-vehicle rollover accident in southeastern Saline County Friday evening.
Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander said this morning that at approximately 7:30 p.m. Friday, near the intersection of Everhart Road and S. Kipp Road, a 1998 Ford F150 pickup driven by Charles Garrell, 52, of Gypsum, went off the road, struck a concrete box culvert, flipped and landed upside down in a dry creek bed. Garrell and his dog were able to get out of the pickup. Deciding that they weren't injured, Garrell and his dog walked back to their residence in Gypsum.
Garrell did not report the accident.
Saturday morning at approximately 10 a.m., a nearby property owner noticed the pickup on its top in the dry creek bed and called the sheriff's office, Melander said.
Garrell returned to the scene and decided that he was injured, Melander said. Garrell was transported to Salina Regional Health Center.
He told deputies that a small animal had run out in the road in front of the pickup, exciting his dog, whose running back and forth caused Garrell to drive off the road and into the box culvert, Melander said.
Garrell was cited for failure to report an accident.