TOPEKA – Three people were injured in an accident just before 10 a.m. on Thursday in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 International Semi driven by Cynthia Esther Grant, 47, Wakefield, was eastbound on Interstate 70 just west of Topeka in the passing lane.

The vehicle swerved right and the driver braked heavily to avoid a non-contact vehicle that was partly in the passing lane.

The semi’s trailer jackknifed and struck a 2013 Dodge Avenger driven by Misty L. Adkins, 41, Topeka, that was stopped on the south shoulder.

Grant, Adkins and a passenger in the Dodge Brady Edward Gragg, 36, Bennington, were transported to St. Francis Medical Center.

Gragg was not wearing a seat belt according to the KHP.