Garden City Man Killed In Accident

A Garden City man has died after colliding head-on with a tractor-trailer in Gray County. It happened about 3:30 Saturday afternoon on U.S. Highway 50, about 8 miles west of the U.S. 50 Business Junction.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says that 21-year-old Joseph Dewayne Combs was westbound on U.S. 50 when his car veered left of the centerline and struck an eastbound semi head-on.

Combs was taken to a Dodge City hospital, where he later died.

The driver of the semi, 40-year-old Juan Arcia, of Ft. Myers, Florida, was also taken to a hospital for treatment. His condition is unknown.