(KAIR)--An early Tuesday morning single-vehicle Buchanan County, Missouri wreck left an Atchison, Kansas man seriously injured.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the wreck happened on U.S. 59 Highway about 9 miles south of St. Joseph around 5:45.

The Patrol says 34-year-old Christopher Lurquin was northbound, south of Route KK, when his pickup truck traveled off the roadway into a drainage culvert and struck an embankment.

Lurquin, who was wearing a seatbelt, was transported by Life Net air ambulance to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City.

The Patrol reports he was the lone occupant in his vehicle.