{"id":315314,"date":"2026-05-14T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:06:07","slug":"california-man-killed-wednesday-in-us-36-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315314\/","title":{"rendered":"California man killed Wednesday in US-36 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CUBA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; One person was killed in a crash Wednesday morning in Washington County in north-central Kansas, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The collision was reported at 9:34 a.m. Wednesday on US-36 highway about six miles east of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2023 Toyota Highlander sport utility vehicle was traveling east on US-36 when it crossed the centerline and collided with a 2003 Peterbilt semitrailer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A California man was killed in a crash Wednesday morning in Washington County in north-central...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/77VUSM4RXRHZ7NGK5W3KAVVAYY.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"625\" \/>A California man was killed in a crash Wednesday morning in Washington County in north-central Kansas, officials said.(WBRC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following the collision, the semi ran off the highway to the right, overturned and came to rest on its passenger side, partially in the roadway facing south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Toyota crossed back over the centerline to the right, where it ran off the road to the right and came to rest partially in the roadway facing south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Toyota\u2019s driver, Marvin D. Ost, 75, of Menifee, California, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The semi\u2019s driver, Brian A. Lueking, 40, of Superior, Pennsylvania, was transported to Republic County Hospital for treatment of suspected minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both drivers were alone in their vehicles and were wearing their seat belts, the patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CUBA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; One person was killed in a crash Wednesday morning in Washington County in north-central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,350,9303,1491,17819,132033,13417],"class_list":["post-315314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crash","tag-cuba","tag-fatal","tag-kansas","tag-us-36-highway","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315314","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=315314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}