Missouri State Highway Patrol

Patrol reports nine people died in traffic crashes during this year’s Thanksgiving holiday counting period

Views: 0The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports nine people died in traffic crashes during this year’s Thanksgiving holiday counting period, from 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 27, 2019, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, December 1, 2019. : Patrol’s Thanksgiving Holiday Traffic Statistics for 2019  Crashes ─ 404 Injuries ─ 166 Fatalities ─ 7 DWI ─ 94 Drug Arrests ─ 63 During the 2018 […]

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Elderly at special risk during frigid weather

Views: 0Frigid weather across the Midwest puts the elderly at special risk, said a University of Missouri Extension safety specialist. “Elderly in poorly heated homes or those of low income may unknowingly keep temperatures in a dangerous range in attempts to lower their heating bills,” said Karen Funkenbusch. As many as 25,000 older adults die […]

Traffic Accident

Bucklin woman hurt in crash on Highway 36

Views: 0A woman from Bucklin was injured when the vehicle she was a passenger in, struck a patch of ice, traveled off the north side of Highway 36 and struck a tree in Macon County one mile to the west of Callao. Seventy-five-year-old Patricia Shawn received minor injuries and was taken by an ambulance to […]

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Novinger woman arrested after crashing on Highway 11

Views: 1The Highway Patrol reports a Novinger woman was arrested on an allegation of driving while intoxicated under the influence drugs after the car she drove overturned near Kirksville Thursday morning. Forty-nine-year-old Stacey Tade refused treatment at the scene for minor injuries. The car traveled east on Highway 11 before it ran off the left […]

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Carroll County rollover crash sends woman to hospital

Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports a Dewitt woman sustained moderate injuries when the vehicle she drove overturned in Carroll County on Thursday morning. An ambulance transported 69-year-old Patricia Winfrey to Fitzgibbon Hospital of Marshall. The vehicle traveled east on Highway 24 before it slid off the right side of the road west of Water Street, […]

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Big rig driver going too fast for road conditions jackknifes, sending driver to hospital

Views: 0A Bondurant, Iowa woman sustained moderate injuries when the tractor-trailer she drove traveled too fast for weather conditions and jackknifed one mile east of Osborn Thursday morning. An ambulance transported 36-year-old Karen Martinez to Mosaic Life Care in Saint Joseph. The tractor-trailer traveled east on Highway 36 before running off the north side of […]

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Grundy County seeking bids on new ambulance

Views: 0Grundy County is accepting bids for a new ambulance. Sealed bids are due in the Grundy County Clerk’s Office in the courthouse in Trenton by the morning of November 5, 2019, at 9 o’clock. Additional information and vehicle specifications can be requested by contacting Grundy County Ambulance Director Steve Tracy at 660-359-4422.