Topeka, KS : Two people injured in T-bone crash south of downtown on Tuesday afternoon, January 26, 2016

Two people were injured early Tuesday afternoon in a two-car, T-bone crash just south of downtown Topeka.

Emergency crews were sent around 1:05 p.m. to the 1800 block of S. Kansas Avenue, where the two cars had collided.

Police at the scene said a silver, two-door Chrysler Sebring was pulling east out of a parking lot on the west side of S. Kansas Avenue when it collided with a silver, four-door Ford Taurus that was headed south in the right lane of S. Kansas Avenue.

The female driver of the Ford was injured and was taken on a stretcher to an American Medical Response ambulance.

Meanwhile, Topeka firefighters used heavy equipment to cut off the caved-in driver’s door of the Chrysler to extricate the male driver.

Crews worked about 15 minutes to get to the man. Once he was lifted out of the car, he was placed on a stretcher and taken to a waiting ambulance parked on S.W. 18th Street.

Police said both drivers were alone in their vehicles.

Southbound traffic on S. Kansas Avenue was diverted around the scene for about a half hour.

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2 hurt in T-bone crash south of downtown