KLZA)-- One person was hospitalized following an early Friday morning wreck in Atchison County, Missouri.

The Missouri Highway Patrol reports a Ford Freestar driven by 32-year-old Brandon Medina of Omaha and a semi operated by 27-year-old Nicholas White of Beatrice, Nebraska were both southbound on Interstate 29 approximately five miles north of Rock Port when the car Medina was driving impacted the unit being towed by the semi.

The Medina car traveled off the road, across the median the across the northbound lanes of traffic and down an embankment, hitting a fence before coming to rest in a field.

Medina was transported to the Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg, Iowa by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance with what were described as serious injuries. He was not wearing a safety device at the time of the wreck.

The Atchison County Sheriff's Department assisted at the scene of the 1:15 a.m. wreck.