MANKATO, Kan. (AP) - A teenage worker has been killed in a crash as he loaded traffic-control equipment onto a trailer on the side of a north-central Kansas highway, authorities there said.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday along U.S. Highway 36 in Jewell County. Gabriel Rupp, 18, of Hays, was on the north shoulder of the highway loading traffic control equipment when he was hit by a westbound semitrailer, investigators said.
The semi ended up in the north ditch of the highway. Rupp was declared dead at the scene, television station KSNW reported.
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Investigators said the 55-year-old driver of the semi was not injured.
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