One dead, two injured after off-road vehicle hits tree, Kansas Highway Patrol says

A man is dead and two people were rushed to the hospital after the off-road vehicle they were in struck a tree Saturday night in Barton County, Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs show.

The incident was reported around 9 p.m. in the 3000 block of Dike Road on the south side of Great Bend, Kansas. Bryan Kramer, 42, of Great Bend, was eastbound on Dike Road in a 2022 Polaris RZR when the vehicle struck a tree, according to the report.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. The passengers, 58-year-old Carl Andrasek and a 14-year-old boy, both from Great Bend, were taken to KU Medical Center with serious injuries, the report says.

No other vehicles were involved in the incident.