A 78-year-old Lyon County man was killed in a tractor accident northeast of Emporia Friday morning.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office says that just before 11 a.m., Kenneth DeDonder was driving his tractor in the 1700 block of Road 270, northwest of Reading. He struck a guardrail and the tractor overturned into a ditch.
First responders arrived and found DeDonder in the cab of the tractor. He was removed but was pronounced dead.