If you meant to take the highway to or from Topeka on Tuesday evening you may have had to take a different route.

That’s because deputies and Kansas Highway Patrol troopers closed a stretch of U.S. Highway 40 – which connects Lawrence and Topeka – after two trucks collided along the roadway, said Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Kristen Dymacek.

Around 6 p.m. a 26-year-old man was driving his Dodge truck eastbound along Highway 40, Dymacek said. Within the 700 block of the Highway, 72-year-old Michael Stultz, of Lawrence, turned his Ford truck into the Dodge’s path and the two collided.

Neither men were seriously injured, nor were they taken to the hospital, Dymacek said.

Stultz was, however, arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, Dymacek said.

Stultz was booked into the Douglas County Jail and later released after posting a $250 bond, according to the jail’s online booking logs.

The highway was closed for about 90 minutes after the accident, Dymacek said.

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