By Roger Estlack, Clarendon Enterprise
A Kansas man lost his life Monday, July 28, while traveling through Donley County on Interstate 40.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Kelly Hill said 75-year-old Robert Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene by Donley County Justice of the Peace Connie Havens.
Jackson, a resident of Yates Center, Kan., was driving a 2008 Chevy Impala about 10:40 a.m. and traveling with his wife and daughter during heavy rainfall. The car was traveling eastbound about one-quarter mile west of the Safety Rest Area when the accident occurred.
An unidentified truck driver told Hill that Jackson was in the outside lane and appeared to be moving to the inside lane to presumably avoid standing water on the road. The truck driver said Jackson lost control of the vehicle at that point. The car went into the south ditch and the driver’s side door slammed into a light pole.
All occupants of the car were wearing seatbelts. Jackson’s wife was uninjured, and his daughter received only minor injuries, Hill said.
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