ELLSWORTH TOWNSHIP (WJON News) -- A Litchfield man was hurt when he crashed his vehicle Wednesday morning.

The Meeker County Sheriff's Office was called to the area of County Highway 14 and 675th Avenue just after 6:15 a.m. The crash location is in Ellsworth Township southwest of Dassel.

The sheriff's office says 57-year-old Steven Graphenteen was southbound on Highway 14 when he left the roadway, vaulted over 675th Avenue, and landed in a grove of trees.

Graphenteen was taken to Meeker Memorial Hospital with significant, but non-life-threatening injuries.

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