{"id":188062,"date":"2026-02-22T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:05:26","slug":"two-topekans-injured-in-head-on-collision-on-southeast-california-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188062\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Topekans injured in head-on collision on Southeast California Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A head-on collision Saturday left two people with minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.gov\/khp-crashlogs\/search\/viewDetail\/2026002320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.gov\/khp-crashlogs\/search\/viewDetail\/2026002320\">Kansas Highway Patrol Crash Log<\/a>, a 2005 Acura TSX was traveling southbound in the 1200 block of Southeast California Avenue around 2 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At the same time, a 2015 Toyota Corolla was travelling northbound on the same road when it crossed the center line and struck the Acura head-on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to KHP, the driver of the Acura, a 32-year-old male of Merriam, Kan., complained of pain. Additional details on his injuries were not available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Toyota held two occupants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver, a 25-year-old male of Topeka, was taken to the hospital with a suspected minor injury. The other occupant in the vehicle, a 37-year-old female of Topeka, was also taken to the hospital with a suspected minor injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All individuals involved were wearing their safety restraints. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">View the full Kansas Highway Patrol Crash Log report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.gov\/khp-crashlogs\/search\/viewDetail\/2026002320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansas.gov\/khp-crashlogs\/search\/viewDetail\/2026002320\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A head-on collision Saturday left two people with minor injuries. According to the Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23629,7,9,8,8197,350,20719,1575,1583,2687,17819,88404,5659,14308,23630],"class_list":{"0":"post-188062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-acura","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-collision","13":"tag-crash","14":"tag-head-on","15":"tag-highway","16":"tag-hospital","17":"tag-injuries","18":"tag-kansas","19":"tag-khp","20":"tag-minor","21":"tag-patrol","22":"tag-toyota"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}