Authorities say a teenage worker was killed as he loaded traffic-control equipment onto a trailer on the side of a north-central Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday along U.S. Highway 36 in Jewell County.
Investigators say Gabriel Rupp, 18, of Hays, was on the north shoulder of the highway loading traffic control equipment when he was hit by a westbound semitrailer. The semi ended up in the north ditch of the highway.
Rupp was declared dead at the scene. Investigators say the driver, 55, of the semi was not injured.





