The Kansas Highway Patrol says one man is dead after a two-vehicle crash on US 69, two miles south of Pittsburg. Authorities say 70-year-old Stephen Hite was driving a pickup south on the roadway when he slowed to turn. He was rear-ended by a car . Hite's truck overturned onto its roof. Both vehicles came to rest in the east ditch.

Hite died at the scene.