EMPORIA – Two Kansas teenagers were injured in an accident just after 6 p.m. on Thursday in Lyon County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe driven by Clarissa Childress, 19, Westmoreland, was traveling on Kansas 99 one mile north of Emporia.

The vehicle rear-ended a 1991 GMC pickup driven by David Mauersberger, 38, Emporia.

Childress and a passenger in the Hyundai Morgan Schwinn, 19, Westmoreland, were transported to Newman Medical Center.

Mauersberger was not injured.
The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.