Burns man injured Thursday in one-vehicle crash

Joseph Lee Koehn, 31, of Burns, was injured Thursday morning in a one-vehicle accident about a mile west of the Kansas Highway 254 junction and Arapaho Road in Butler County.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Koehn was traveling eastbound in a 2001 Ford truck on Kansas Highway 254 when he suffered a medical problem.

?(Koehn) drove off the roadway into a field on the south side of the road and struck a tree,? a KHP official said.

He was taken by ambulance to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado.

The report stated he was wearing a seatbelt, but no other details were available at press time.

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