BEATRICE – The driver of a semitrailer truck was killed when his vehicle went off a road in northeast Kansas.

The victim, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol, was 24-year-old Cody Thomas Carson, of Muscotah, Kansas.

The KHP says Carson’s 2017 Freightliner truck was traveling west on 330^th Road in Brown County when the vehicle left the roadway to the right, entering the north ditch. The tractor and trailer overturned, hit a culvert and came to rest in the north ditch, at the base of a steep embankment.

Carson died at the scene.

The accident happened Wednesday, at around 2:30 p.m…about two miles south of the Kansas-Nebraska state line…east of Reserve, Kansas. Investigators said they were not certain why the truck left the roadway.