ELLSWORTH COUNTY – Three adults and a child were injured in an accident just after 8 p.m. on Tuesday in Ellsworth County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Ford Escape driven by Dillon A. Sonnier, 17, Sylvan Grove, was westbound on K-140, eight miles east of Ellsworth.

A passenger grabbed the steering wheel and the vehicle traveled into the left lane.

The driver overcorrected, lost control of the vehicle and it flipped end over end into the north ditch.

Sonnier was transported to the hospital in Elllsworth.

Passengers Cassandra L. Witt, 18, Ellsworth, Joshua Griswold, 21, Arkansas City, and Blake J. Witt, 6-months, Ellsworth, were transported to Salina Regional Health Center.

Griswold was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.