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Driver falls asleep, crashes into overpass

After the incident, the man got wedged up underneath the overpass

By John Boyd
KWCH

BUTLER COUNTY, Iowa — An Iowa man is in a Wichita hospital after crashing his truck into an overpass in Butler County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says the driver was about a mile west of Haverhill on Highway 54 when he fell asleep at the wheel.

The 35-year-old somehow got wedged up underneath the overpass.

Paramedics rushed him to a Wichita hospital with potentially critical injuries. A trooper tells us the man was passing through Kansas to Mexico.

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