A Macon County accident on Tuesday afternoon injured a truck driver from Kirksville. The wreck, reported at 4:45 PM, resulted in minor injuries to 29-year old Dustin Parton. He was taken by private automobile to Samaritan Hospital in Macon. He was using a seat belt at the time of the incident.
A trooper on-scene indicated that Parton’s Freightliner trash truck was traveling westbound on Southwest Boulevard, four miles west of Macon, when it went off the north side of the road at a curve, striking a tree. The crash demolished the truck.
