Automobile Accidents

• Riley County Crash Leaves Three Injured

  Matthew Bergmann | June 05, 2007 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  A three-vehicle crash in Riley County early this morning left three people injured. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol two of the three people injured were seriously hurt and required immediate medical attention. At approximately 6:30 am today, Bruce Stroud, 32, of St. Francis, was driving a 1984 Toyota truck south on K-18 highway when he tried to make a left turn onto Walnut Street at...

• Topeka Man Dies In Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 11, 2009 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  Wet weather is likely the cause of car crash that claimed the life of a 72-year-old Topeka man on Wednesday morning near Junction City, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. While driving on...

• Pedestrian Injured In Hit And Run

  Chrissie Cole | August 23, 2009 2:56 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  A pedestrian was struck and injured in a hit and run accident in Junction City Sunday early morning. William Head, 24, of Manhattan, was walking along the 1000 block of East 6th Street, just...

• Millons Hurt By Drug Errors

  Matthew Bergmann | July 20, 2006 1:51 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  Fox News has recently reported that more than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor's offices. That number has the potential to be even higher if patients' own medication mix-ups were added to the mix. A staggering report from Instiute of Medicine has called for major steps to increase patient safety when dealing prescription drugs. ...

• Five Killed In Osage County Crash

  Matthew Bergmann | April 28, 2007 9:06 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  Five people, including two toddlers and three adults were killed in Osage County, Kansas on Friday after two vans collided head-on. The accident occured on K-268, just east of US-75 highway. At this point, the only known survivor of the tragedy is a 5-year-old boy who was rescued by emergency services and sent to a hospital in Topeka, Kansas with non-life threatening injuries. The Kansas...

• Driver Hits School Bus, Four People Injured

  Matthew Bergmann | February 13, 2007 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  Topeka, Kansas -- Several U.S.D. 501 students suffered injuries Monday morning when a vehicle ran a red light and crashed into their school bus. The driver of the school bus and three children were treated for minor injuries following the accident which occured near the corner of S.W. 6th and Washburn. Fortunately, the school bus had just begun its morning route and had not picked up many...

• Search Continues for Vehicle in Deadly Hit and Run Case

  Matthew Bergmann | July 24, 2006 1:39 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  Local law enforcement continues to search for a vechile involved in a hit-and-run accident last week. Topeka police have determined that a 1990s model Chevrolet van or van-type vehicle was involved in death of Eric Schneider, 53, of Topeka, last week. The department's Accident Reconstruction Unit is continuing to investigate the accident that killed Schneider. Scheider was found lying in the...

• Jefferson County Man Killed in Motorcycle Accident

  Matthew Bergmann | July 21, 2006 1:27 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  The intersection of US-59 and K-16 highways was the scence of fatal accident yesterday. Nathan High O'Neill (21)was pronounced dead at the scene after the motorcyle he was riding sturck the back end of a semitrailer. Tha accident occured about 10:34 a.m. when O'Neill, a Winchester native, was driving his motorcyle northbound on US-59 and merged to the southbound lanes to yield to a...

• Car Accident Claims Topeka Man

  Staff Writer | December 06, 2005 9:25 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  A Topeka resident was killed recently when the pickup he was riding in was struck by another car on US-75 about nine miles south of Holton. The driver of the other car, a Mayetta woman, was headed east on 158th road and failed to yeild to the pickup, according to authorities. The driver of the pickup, the driver of the other car, and a passenger of the other car were all taken to the hospital...

• One Dead And Two Injured In Three Motorcycle Accidents

  Matthew Bergmann | April 18, 2007 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS

  A rash of motorcylce accidents left one person dead and two others seeking medical treatment on Sunday. William John Moser, 57, a resident of Liberty, Mo, was killed in Leavenworth County when he lost control of his motorcycle and slid under an oncoming vehicle. The accident occured on Kansas Highway 5 at approximately 4:40 p.m. Authorities say that Moser, who had just purchased the the...