{"id":136859,"date":"2026-02-18T00:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136859\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:33:29","slug":"2-injured-1-critically-in-two-vehicle-crash-on-manhattan-monee-road-manhattan-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136859\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Injured, 1 Critically In Two-Vehicle Crash On Manhattan-Monee Road: Manhattan Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNINCORPORATED MANHATTAN \u2014 Two people were injured\u2014one critically\u2014in a crash at Manhattan-Monee and Schoolhouse roads late Tuesday afternoon, according to Illinois State Police and Manhattan Fire Protection District officials.<\/p>\n<p>State Police were called at 4:35 p.m. Tuesday for a report a two-unit traffic crash at the intersection. Manhattan Fire Protection District first responders also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured, and one required extrication, according to Manhattan Fire Protection District Chief Steve Malone. <\/p>\n<p>The extricated driver was later airlifted to an area hospital, Malone said. <\/p>\n<p>The second driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Manhattan-Monee Road is closed between S. Schoolhouse and Kankakee roads, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is under investigation by Illinois State Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNINCORPORATED MANHATTAN \u2014 Two people were injured\u2014one critically\u2014in a crash at Manhattan-Monee and Schoolhouse roads late Tuesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-136859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136859","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=136859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}