ROBERT PIERCE
• Leader & Times
A Liberal man is dead following a fatality accident Monday morning in eastern Seward County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported shortly after 6 a.m. Monday, a 2017 Chevy Silverado was eastbound on U.S. Highway 54 just east of Road 9.
KHP said the pickup crossed over the fog line onto the eastbound shoulder and collided with an unknown stopped vehicle.
“The stopped vehicle left the collision scene prior to notification of the collision to law enforcement and has not yet been identified,” the agency’s report said.
The driver of the Silverado, 26-year-old Aaron Bradley Patton of Liberal, suffered a fatal injury and was taken to Hornung Family Funeral Home in Liberal. KHP said he was not wearing his seat belt at the time.
