FATALITY

A 38-year-old man with a Mankato address, Andrew Pumphrey, was killed in a motor vehicle accident just before 9:30 p.m. Monday.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2016 Freightliner semi-truck tractor driven by Casey Tate, 62, of Luray, collided with a Case IH tractor towing a farm implement driven by Pumphrey a short distance west of Scandia.

Pumphrey was thrown from the tractor and pronounced dead at the scene. His body was transported to the Tibbetts-Fischer Funeral Home.

Emergency medical services personnel transported Michelle Hauger, 46, of Luray to the Republic County Hospital with apparently serious injuries. She was a passenger in the truck.

Tate sustained an apparent minor injury and was not transported to the hospital.

Both Tate and Hauger were properly restrained in the their vehicle according to the investigating officer.

The tractor being driven by Pumphrey was towing a farm implement at the time of the accident.

Pumphrey’s mother, June, is a rural Mankato resident and former Brodstone Healthcare employee.

At the time of the accident, both drivers were westbound on Highway 36 and the truck struck the rear of the farm equipment.

Following the impact, the tractor left the highway and entered the south ditch.