A Lawrence man was taken to the hospital with head and arm injuries after an early-morning crash on the Kansas Turnpike.

Eric Michael White, 21, swerved his 1994 Chevrolet pickup truck to avoid debris from a separate accident and struck the highway’s barrier wall at 3:41 a.m. Friday about 10 miles east of the East Lawrence exit, according to the Turnpike Authority.

That separate accident occurred one minute earlier when 22-year-old Corrine Vandenberg, of Edwardsville, went off the road in her 1997 Hyundai, swerved to correct and then struck the barrier. Vandenberg was uninjured.

There was another noninjury incident in the same area at 3:56 a.m., when an ambulance apparently struck the driver’s side mirror of a semi-truck.

White was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment of head and arm injuries. He was later released, said Janice Early-Weiss, spokeswoman for LMH.