LOUISBURG (AP) – A California man has died after a car he was driving was hit by a vehicle going the wrong way on a divided highway in northeastern Kansas.

The Kansas Highway Patrol identifies the victim as 57-year-old Scott Klein, of San Clemente.

The crash happened around 5:30 a-m, Thursday on U.S. 69 in Miami County, just west of Louisburg.

The patrol says a van driven by a 45-year-old woman from Drexel, Mo., was heading northbound in the southbound lanes when it hit the car driven by Klein.

Troopers said the van crossed a grass median and traveled more than a mile in the wrong direction before the crash. Other motorists had called 911 reporting a minivan driving erratically, but the crash occurred before officers could locate the van.

The van’s driver had serious injuries.