Emporia Police officers say a man lost consciousness while driving early Tuesday, leading to a crash into an apartment building.
Officers and Emporia Fire/EMS were dispatched to 12th and Highland around 6 am, finding a car in the south wall of the Prairie Sage apartment building along 12th between Highland and Union. Police Capt. Ray Mattas says 34-year-old Luis Videsmateo, hometown not listed, was eastbound when he had a medical emergency. Videsmateo went left of center, hit a curb, left the street and hit the building.
Videsmateo was taken by ambulance to Newman Regional Health for treatment, although Mattas has clarified Videsmateo was not hurt in the crash.
Mattas says Videsmateo’s car partially broke through the wall of an occupied bedroom, and a repair crew says the front of the car was hanging over the bed with the occupant sleeping. The unnamed occupant was not hurt.
The crash also destroyed a central air unit.
8 am Tuesday: Car crashes into Emporia apartment building
One person has been taken to Newman Regional Health after a crash in Emporia early Tuesday.
The crash was reported at the Prairie Sage apartment complex, 302 East 12th, just after 6 am. Emporia Fire says this was a single-vehicle wreck as a vehicle went into an apartment complex. The driver was taken to Newman Regional Health with non-life-threatening injuries. It’s unclear if the man was suffering some sort of medical condition at the time of the wreck.
Nobody inside the apartment building was hurt. Repair crews on site say the affected apartment was occupied and the front of the car was overhanging a bed when the vehicle stopped. The crash destroyed a central air unit as well as a window and part of a wall.
KVOE and KVOE.com will have updates.
6-6:45 am Tuesday: One person to Newman Regional Health after wreck in northeast Emporia
One person has been taken to Newman Regional Health after a crash in Emporia early Tuesday.
The crash was reported in the 300 block of East 12th just after 6 am. Emporia Fire says this was a single-vehicle wreck as a vehicle went into an apartment complex.
Additional details are currently pending.
KVOE and KVOE.com will have updates.
