{"id":385765,"date":"2026-07-04T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:48:08","slug":"avoid-the-area-fatal-accident-shuts-down-area-in-topekas-oakland-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385765\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid the area: Fatal accident shuts down area in Topeka\u2019s Oakland neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A person has died following an accident involving a motorcycle and a car Friday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Topeka Police Department (TPD), on Friday, July 3, just before 9 p.m., officers responded to the area of NE Sumner and NE Seward St regarding an injury accident involving a motorcycle and a passenger car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TPD says that both occupants were transported to a local hospital, one with serious injuries and the other with life threatening injuries. Officials said one of the occupants was pronounced deceased at the hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The area will be closed to traffic for the next several hours as the investigation continues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No additional information was provided. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A person has died following an accident involving a motorcycle and a car Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,26870,120968,120967,155657,155656,120965,155658,155659],"class_list":["post-385765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-topeka","tag-topeka-kansas","tag-topeka-ks","tag-topeka-local-news","tag-topeka-news","tag-topeka-oakland","tag-wibw","tag-wibw-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385765","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=385765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}