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( KNZA )-- An Olsburg man is dead after being struck by a vehicle on a Pottawatomie County highway.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 62-year-old Wesley Esping was walking out of his driveway onto K-16 Highway Tuesday evening to check on a deer that had been hit by another vehicle when he was struck by a westbound pickup.
Esping was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident about a half mile east of Olsburg.
The truck driver, 88-year-old Rabern Vawter of Randolph, was not hurt.
The accident was reported shortly before 5:45 Tuesday evening.
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