A Topeka man was hospitalized following an accident on the Kansas Turnpike early Wednesday morning.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol Crash log, the accident occurred at 6:15 am at mile marker 128.2 southbound, roughly half a mile south of the Emporia tollgate. KHP says 50-year-old Chad Redmond was traveling southbound in a 2001 Ford Expedition when the vehicle suffered an undisclosed mechanical failure.
The expedition then collided with a barrier wall. Redmond suffered reported “minor injuries” and was taken by ambulance to Newman Regional Health for observation and possible treatment.
Redmond was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.
