BARTON COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a accident that seriously injured a man just after 11:30p.m. Friday in Barton County.
According to Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir, a Buick sedan driven by Ricky McGinnis, 66 of Hoisington, ran over the legs of 20-year-old Kaden Baird, of Ellinwood who was lying in the eastbound lanes of the NW 100 Road just west of Hoisington.
EMS transported Baird to Clara Barton Hospital and he was later air-lifted to a hospital in Wichita, according to Bellendir.
Witnesses who had been with the man earlier reported that he was highly intoxicated at the time of the incident. The occupants of the Buick were not injured. The accident remains under investigaton.