Sep 10, 2025

Two hospitalized after semi strikes embankment

Posted Sep 10, 2025 12:00 PM

CLAY COUNTY—Two people were injured in an accident just before 1p.m. Tuesday in Clay County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Freightliner semi driven by Dillon Ray Williams, 18, Clay Center, was westbound on Kansas 9 two miles east of Clifton. The vehicle drifted into the north ditch. The driver overcorrected and the semi entered the south ditch and struck an embankment.

EMS transported Williams and a passenger James Dean Jensen, 55, Morganville, to the Clay County Medical Center. Both were properly restrained, according to the KHP.