Geary County Commissioner Larry Hicks was not injured when his vehicle rolled three times at an I-70 location approximately 20 miles east of Junction City on Friday morning.

Hicks told JC Post he was enroute to Topeka when his vehicle hit a patch of black ice. “My car took off. I tried to do what you’re trained to do, pad the brakes lightly and turn the wheel in the other direction, but the car was traveling at a high rate of speed. I rolled not once, twice but three times and was pinned in the car before I knew anything had happened.”

Hicks credits two members of the general public for freeing him from the vehicle which was turned upside down in the median of the interstate. They had to break a window on the passenger side of the car and then pulled the commissioner from the vehicle, a 2000 Lincoln Town Car, which was totaled. He did not know the identity of the two men.

Hicks was wearing a seat belt. “Thank God that I was wearing it because had I not been I could have been killed or the victim of a serious injury.” Riley County police  responded to the accident.

Other accidents were reported on icy roads in Riley County on Friday, including one in the northern part of that county that resulted in one person being transported to a hospital.