TOPEKA- Two Kansas teenagers were injured in an accident just after 9 p.m. on Thursday in Wabaunsee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Taylor E. Benteman, 17, Paxico, was eastbound in the driving lane on Interstate 70 sixteen miles west of Topeka.

Another vehicle slowed in front of the jeep causing the driver to swerve left to avoid a collision. The driver overcorrected to the right, left the roadway and overturned multiple times.

Benteman and a passenger in the vehicle Lauren E. Newell, 14, Maple Hill, were transported to Stormont Vail.

Benteman was not wearing a seat belt according to the KHP