(KAIR)--A Holton man escaped serious injury after his car collided with a tree in Atchison County late Monday morning.

The Kansas Highway Patrol, in a report, says 19-year-old Jacob Sims was westbound on K-116, near 2476 Hamilton Road, 4 miles northwest of Nortonville, when his car left the roadway to the right and struck the tree.

Sims was taken to the Atchison Hospital for the evaluation of what the Patrol identifies as a "suspected minor injury."

Sims was wearing a seatbelt when the wreck happened around 11:40 Monday morning.