(KNZA)--A single-vehicle Brown County wreck early Monday afternoon claimed the life of a Falls City, Nebraska man and left another injured.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says killed in the wreck on U.S. 73 Highway, north of Hiawatha, was 58-year-old Charles Kreifels.

The Patrol reports that Kreifels was northbound when his pickup truck, which was pulling a trailer, left the highway and entered the west ditch.  The vehicle then traveled back across the highway and entered the east ditch where it struck the bank of an adjacent creek bed.

Kreifels was pronounced dead at the scene.

A passenger, 63-year-old Falls City resident David Warner, was transported to the Hiawatha Community Hospital.

The Patrol says neither occupant was wearing a seatbelt when the wreck happened north of 260th Road around 1:00.