{"id":326781,"date":"2026-08-21T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326781\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:14:09","slug":"driver-87-hospitalized-after-thursday-morning-crash-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326781\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver, 87, hospitalized after Thursday morning crash in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was hospitalized after a Thursday morning car-truck collision on the west side of Manhattan, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The crash was reported around 9:23 a.m. Thursday in the 4200 block of Kimball Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County Police officials said responding officers found that a 2017 Toyota Camry, driven by Gerald Hughes, 87, of Manhattan, had collided with a 2025 International box truck, driven by Marcello Martinez, 24, of Independence, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"An 87-year-old man was hospitalized after a Thursday morning car-truck collision on the west...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/PRH46PZS5JHMPI2PADVVPRXKFM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>An 87-year-old man was hospitalized after a Thursday morning car-truck collision on the west side of Manhattan, officials said.(Source: MGN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hughes was transported to Ascension Via Christi Hospital for treatment of injuries he suffered in the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County Police officials said Hughes was issued a citation for improper driving on a roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Additional details weren\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Check <a href=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" target=\"_blank\">wibw.com<\/a> later for more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was hospitalized after a Thursday morning car-truck collision on the west side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[122986,2214,122985,75,84,83,9,24,63,3132],"class_list":["post-326781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-4200-block","tag-crash","tag-kimball-avenue","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-riley-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326781","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=326781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}