By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
SALINE COUNTY, Kan. —A Nebraska man was transported to the hospital after the SUV he was driving struck the back of a tractor-trailer rig hauling metal just north of the Interstate 135/Interstate 70 interchange just after 12:30a.m. Thursday.
Jeffery Wolfe, 37, of Stanton, Neb., was northbound in the left-hand lane of Interstate 135 in a 2004 Lincoln Aviator when the SUV drifted into the right-hand lane and struck the back left corner of the tractor-trailer rig that was merging from Interstate 70 onto Interstate 35/U.S. Highway 81, according to Saline County Sheriff's Lieutenant Michael Ascher.
The rig was being driven by David Mitchell, 51, of Wyoming was driving the semi.nThere was no evidence of braking or skid marks prior to impact, Ascher said. The crash caved in the passenger side of the SUV.
Wolfe, who had to be extracated from the SUV, suffered a possible broken bone and other minor injuries, and was transported by EMS to Salina Regional Health Center, Ascher said. Mitchell was not injured.
Additionally, a yellow Labrador, who was in the back seat of the SUV, was not injured, Ascher said.