RILEY COUNTY – Five people were injured in an accident just after 5:30a.m. on Sunday in Riley County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Volvo CMV driven by Misty Dean Palmer, 41, Washington, UT., was westbound on Interstate 70 twelve miles east of Manhattan.
The vehicle pulling an enclosed racecar trailer hydroplaned on the wet road, veered right, went on the north shoulder and the driver lost control.
The trailer detached from the vehicle and both rolled on the north shoulder.
The vehicle came to rest on its top and the trailer came to rest on its wheels in north ditch.
Palmer and passengers Robert Kanyon Van Otten, 15, Kyson Paul Palmer, 15, Kayden Ross Palmer, 16, Juston Ross Palmer, 42, all of Washington, UT, were transported to Via Christi in Manhattan.
Only the driver was properly restrained at the time of the accident..