{"id":102165,"date":"2026-01-16T12:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:21:23","slug":"manhattan-man-seriously-injured-early-friday-in-head-on-crash-near-oakley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102165\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man seriously injured early Friday in head-on crash near Oakley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLEY, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man suffered serious injuries early Friday in a head-on crash in western Kansas, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The collision was reported at 12:52 a.m. Friday on US-40 highway about 10 miles west of Oakley in Logan County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Kansas Highway Patrol\u2019s online crash log, a 2010 Chevrolet Impala was westbound on US-40 when it crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a 2024 Kenworth semitrailer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A 23-year-old Manhattan man suffered serious injuries early Friday in a head-on crash in...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ETZKP5U2WBBONL4FRQSCAAQSGI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A 23-year-old Manhattan man suffered serious injuries early Friday in a head-on crash in western Kansas, authorities said.(MGN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the Impala, Jaylen Z. Cruse, 23, of Manhattan, was transported to Colby Medical Center in Colby with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver of the semitrailer, Mouanoutoua Van Pein, 34, of Thornton, Colorado, was reported uninjured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The patrol said both drivers were alone in their vehicles and that both were wearing their seat belts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLEY, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man suffered serious injuries early Friday in a head-on crash in western Kansas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[46770,2214,7997,46769,2149,46768,75,84,83,9,24,63,46767,46766],"class_list":{"0":"post-102165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-colby","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-head-on","11":"tag-jaylen-cruse","12":"tag-kansas","13":"tag-logan-county","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-manhattan-headlines","16":"tag-manhattan-news","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-oakley","21":"tag-us-40-highway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}