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(KNZA)--An early Tuesday morning two-vehicle Jackson County wreck, north of Holton, sent two people to the hospital.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says the wreck happened shortly before 6:00 on U.S. 75 Highway about a ¼ mile north of 286th Road.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reports 22-year-old Roan Bruggeman, of Holton, was southbound when his car went left of center and struck a northbound semi-tractor trailer head-on.

Bruggeman, who was the lone occupant in his car, was transported to Topeka’s Stormont-Vail Hospital with what the Patrol described as “suspected serious injury.”

The semi driver, 56-year-old Emporia resident Rexford Dorsey, was also transported to the hospital with what the Patrol described as “possible injury.”

A passenger in the semi, 34-year-old Emporia resident Patrick Arvitt, suffered no apparent injury.

The Patrol says all three occupants were wearing seatbelts.

The wreck shut down a stretch of U.S. 75 Highway for a period of time.

Editor's note: Below is the story first published by MSC News following confirmation of the wreck. 

(KNZA)--An early Tuesday morning wreck in Jackson County has closed down a 10-mile stretch of U.S. 75 Highway.

According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, the wreck, which occurred north of 286th Road, involved a passenger car and semi-tractor trailer.

The Jackson County Sheriff and Kansas Highway Patrol are on the scene of the wreck.

Authorities have temporarily shut down U.S. 75 from K-9 to K-16.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse Tuesday morning released a statement about the wreck: 

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, KHP, Jackson County EMS and area fire departments responded to an injury accident just north of 286th on US Hwy 75 shortly before 6 am this morning.

The accident involved a northbound semi tractor-trailer and a southbound Ford Fusion.

The two vehicles collided head on approximately ¼ mile north of 286th Road. Both lanes of US Hwy 75 have been closed temporarily from K-9 Hwy to K-16 Hwy in Holton.

The driver of the Ford Fusion was taken to a Topeka hospital and was triaged code yellow, while the two occupants of the semi were triaged code green.

MSC News will bring you additional details as they become available.