(KLZA)-- A Rock Port man was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon when he was ejected from the semi-truck he was driving.

The Missouri Highway Patrol report says 31-year-old Dalton Hudson was northbound on Route N, north of 260th Road, approximately six miles east of Fairfax when the 2003 Freightliner he was driving went off the east side of the road. The report indicates Hudson overcorrected and the truck returned to the roadway, then overturned onto its passenger side, ejecting Hudson.

Hudson was transported by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance to the Fairfax hospital and later Lifeflighted to Nebraska Medicine in Omaha.

The truck suffered extensive damage and was towed away.

The Atchison County Sheriff's Department and MODOT assisted at the scene of the wreck.