Posted April 27, 2021 11:41am
(KAIR)--An Atchison man is dead, killed Monday night in a single vehicle Buchanan County crash.
According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 49-year-old Christopher Harvey was eastbound on U.S. Highway 59, one mile east of Atchison, when his GMC Sierra truck went off the south side of the roadway, vaulted from a field entrance, and went airborne.
The truck struck the ground and overturned several times, ejecting Harvey through a rear window. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Patrol’s report, Harvey was not wearing a seat belt when the wreck happened around 8:40 Monday night.