Topeka, KS : Kansas Highway Patrol trooper injured after I-70 crash on Saturday, December 17, 2016

A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper was taken to a Topeka hospital on Saturday after he was injured in a vehicle crash on Interstate 70, authorities said.

American Medical Response personnel transported the trooper from the scene with injuries that weren’t considered severe. He was able to stand up and enter the ambulance without assistance.

“As far as we know, he’s doing OK,” a highway patrol dispatcher told The Topeka Capital-Journal.

An online crash log identified the trooper as Scott Moses, 29, of St. George.

The crash occurred about 2:10 p.m. on eastbound I-70 in western Shawnee County, about 7.5 miles west of Topeka, according to the crash report.

The patrol said a 2005 Volkswagen Beetle driven by Suvana Badgett, 19, of Valley Falls, lost control and left the roadway, striking the trooper’s vehicle, which was legally parked with its emergency lights activated on the left shoulder, partly in the grassy median. Moses was sitting in the front passenger seat of the patrol vehicle.

Badgett’s vehicle also struck a third vehicle, which was disabled in the median because of a previous crash. That vehicle wasn’t occupied.

Badgett wasn’t injured.

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Kansas Highway Patrol trooper taken to hospital after I-70 crash