HOISINGTON — An Ellinwood man was hospitalized after being run over by a vehicle Friday evening on a county road west of Hoisington, the Barton County Sheriff’s Office reported Monday.

Sheriff Brian Bellendir said deputies responded to the 100 block of NW 100 Road at approximately 11:30 p.m. and observed Kaden Baird, 20, Ellinwood, being loaded into an ambulance.

The BCSO reported that for unknown reasons, Baird had lain down in the eastbound lane of the blacktop road. A 1997 Buick Century, operated by Ricky McGinnis, 66, was eastbound and did not see him lying in the roadway. McGinnis attempted to take evasive action but ran over Baird’s legs.

Witnesses who had been with Baird earlier told officers he was highly intoxicated at the time of the incident. McGinnis and a passenger in his vehicle were not injured.

Baird was transported to Clara Barton Hospital in Hoisington, and was later transported to a Wichita area hospital with serious injuries.

The accident is still under investigation.