SHAWNEE COUNTY – A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper was injured in a 3 vehicle accident just after 2p.m. on Saturday in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Volkswagen Beetle driven by Suvana Badgett, 19, Valley Falls,

was eastbound on I-70 seven miles west of Topeka.

A KHP patrol Dodge Charger was legally parked on the left shoulder, partially in the grassy median, with all emergency lights activated.

Badgett lost control of the Volkswagen. It left the roadway, struck the legally parked Dodge Charger and an unoccupied 2003 Chevy Impala, which was disabled in the grassy median due to a previous crash.

The KHP Trooper Scott Moses, 29, was sitting in the front passenger seat of the patrol vehicle.

Moses was transported to a hospital in Topeka.

Badgett was not injured.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper has been treated for injuries after his vehicle was involved in an accident on Interstate 70.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon near Topeka as a wintry mix was making roads slick, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the accident was weather-related.

Few details have been released but emergency responders say the trooper’s injuries did not appear to be severe, and he was able to enter an ambulance without assistance. He was taken to a Topeka hospital for treatment.

Several accidents were reported across the state, many of them related to freezing drizzle and snow.