Two teenage boys were injured when a pickup slammed into a tree Tuesday morning north of Salina.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that a 2001 Dodge Ram driven by Brody Murk, 16, of Bennington, was northbound at a fairly high rate of speed at the curve in the 4500 block of North Gerard Road when Murk swerved to avoid an oncoming truck pulling a trailer. The truck driver hit the brakes and Murk swerved the Ram off the road and into a tree, Soldan said.
Murk complained of a leg injury and was transported by EMS to Salina Regional Health Center (SRHC), Soldan said. A passenger in the Ram, Jawuan Allen, 16, of Salina, complained of a hand injury and also was transported to SRHC, Soldan said. The truck driver was not injured, he added.