(KAIR)--Monday's winter weather is blamed for its role in a single vehicle. slide off crash in Jackson County that injured two.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse, in a release, says it happened during the noon hour, just east of Denison, on K-16 Highway. It was there, Morse says, that "a passenger vehicle slid off the roadway and down into a ravine crashing into some trees," leaving two occupants trapped in the vehicle.

Firefighters, and deputies, helped rescue the pair from the vehicle, with both transported for hospital care by Jackson County EMS with what Morse says were believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Names are not immediately released.

The Holton Fire Department, and Jackson County EMS, accompanied the Sheriff's Office at the scene of the wreck, which occurred around 12:30 Monday afternoon.

Morse says that while Kansas Department of Transportation and Jackson County Road and Bridge have been working to treat and clear roadways, extreme caution is encouraged if travel is necessary.