PHOTO BY GABE WOLF A one-vehicle rollover Thursday morning near Adamsville sent a San Antonio man to a local hospital. A San Antonio man was transported to Rollins Brook Community Hospital Thursday morning after a rollover about 6.5 miles north of Adamsville.

Jackie Nichols was traveling south on U.S. Highway 281 in a 2005 Chevrolet Aveo when he drifted off the shoulder into a bar ditch, likely as a result of fatigue, said Patrick Hodgkiss, Texas Department of Public Safety trooper.

Nichols woke up and overcorrected to the left, Hodgkiss said. He crossed the center line with the car facing directly east, crashed through a barbed wire fence on the east side of the highway, and rolled one and a half times. The vehicle came to rest upside down, leaning on the front hood, and Nichols was held in the vehicle by his seat belt.

"It's my firm belief that the seat belt he was wearing saved his life," Hodgkiss said.

Along with DPS troopers, Capital Ambulance, the Lampasas Fire Department, the Adamsville Volunteer Fire Department and the Lampasas Sheriff's Department also responded to the rollover.

Firefighters cut Nichols out of the vehicle, and he was transported to Rollins Brook with what Hodgkiss called "incapacitating injuries."

Nichols called 911 on his cellular phone, and a call to DPS came in about 9:15 a.m.

The San Antonio resident was traveling with a Chihuahua, and the dog escaped after the wreck.