(KLZA)-- A Rock Port teenager suffered serous injuries in a single vehicle wreck early Thursday morning on US-59 Highway about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Fairfax.

The Missouri Highway Patrol report says 17-year-old Austin  Wallace was southbound in a pickup about 2:50 a.m. when his pickup traveled off the roadway, over a ditch, became airborne and impacted the ditch and began to overturn. 
The pickup came to rest on its wheels.  

Wallace, who was not wearing a safety device was transported by the Atchison – Holt Ambulance District to the Fairfax Hospital and then on to the Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha. 

The pickup was totaled.  

The Atchison County Sheriff's Department assisted at the scene.