BEATRICE – The driver of a semitrailer truck was killed when his vehicle went off a road in northeast Kansas.

The victim, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol, was 24-year-old Cody Thomas Carson, of Muscotah, Kansas. 

The KHP says Carson’s 2017 Freightliner truck was traveling west on 330th Road in Brown County when the vehicle left the roadway to the right, entering the north ditch.  The tractor and trailer overturned, hit a culvert and came to rest in the north ditch, at the base of a steep embankment. 

Carson died at the scene.

The accident happened Wednesday, at around 2:30 p.m…about two miles south of the Kansas-Nebraska state line…east of Reserve, Kansas.  Investigators said they were not certain why the truck left the roadway.