(KNZA)--A Holton man was killed Friday afternoon in a single-vehicle wreck in western  Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 57-year-old Gary Fortner was eastbound on Interstate-70 in Lafayette County when a tire blew out on his 2002 Ford F-250 pickup truck shortly before 1:30.

The vehicle traveled off the highway and overturned.

Fortner, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.  

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