{"id":279536,"date":"2026-06-27T00:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279536\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:54:36","slug":"car-crashes-into-kansas-dairy-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279536\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes into Kansas Dairy Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; A car crashed into a Dairy Queen in Independence, Kansas, on Thursday afternoon, trapping a passenger inside and causing moderate structural damage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A car crashed into a Dairy Queen on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Independence, Kansas, on...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6QER5V47DBBXTB5KDHSJSRGHAI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1306\" \/>A car crashed into a Dairy Queen on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Independence, Kansas, on Thursday afternoon.(Independence Kansas Fire Department and EMS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1428774739286018&amp;set=pcb.1428775255952633\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1428774739286018&amp;set=pcb.1428775255952633\">Independence Kansas Fire Department<\/a> responded to the scene at 5:17 p.m. The restaurant was open at the time, but no customers or employees inside were injured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A car crashed into a Dairy Queen on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Independence, Kansas, on...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KZXQB677ERFQVEO6SXXZWXQJ6I.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1306\" \/>A car crashed into a Dairy Queen on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Independence, Kansas, on Thursday afternoon.(Independence Kansas Fire Department and EMS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The passenger was trapped after the car went completely into the building. Their condition is unknown. Crews helped the driver out of the vehicle and refused EMS transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the crash is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; A car crashed into a Dairy Queen in Independence, Kansas, on Thursday afternoon, trapping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2227,4843,18447,217,23506,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-279536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-car-crash","tag-dairy-queen","tag-fire-department","tag-ice-cream","tag-independence","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279536","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=279536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}