Rollover lays semi on side west of Wauneta

    A truck driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel last week, resulting in an accident that sent out several Wauneta emergency personnel.
    Sheriff Kevin Mueller said his office received a report of an accident involving a semi-trailer at mile marker 42, a few miles west of Wauneta on Highway 6.
    Once on the scene, he said deputies determined the driver, Wayne Hoppe, 65, of Glasco, Kansas, was heading east in a 1999 Freightliner when he apparently fell asleep, sending his rig into the ditch on the north, and laying it on its side.
    Hoppe was carrying a load of pipe, but it was not spilled in the accident, Mueller said.
    The Wauneta Volunteer Fire Department and Wauneta EMS responded to the scene.
    Mueller said the driver was transported to Chase County Community Hospital with unknown injuries. The truck was considered a total loss, he said.