One person was fatally injured and another person was hurt when a car traveled into the path of a motorcycle in Excelsior Springs. 33-year old Emily Locke of Lawson was pronounced dead at Excelsior Springs Hospital Saturday evening shortly after the accident. She was a passenger on the motorcycle operated by 32-year old Travis Jones […]
Three people were hurt early Sunday when an all-terrain vehicle hit a stationary vehicle head-on in Carroll County and were ejected from the vehicle. Two passengers, 20-year old Christian Coats of Norborne and a 16-year old juvenile boy from Orrick, were taken by private vehicle to Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton with serious injuries. The […]
Four people died as a result of a vehicle traveling off a highway in far northwest Missouri and overturning multiple times. Only a two-year-old boy survived as the highway patrol said he was using a safety device. The accident on Thursday afternoon happened nine miles northeast of St. Joseph. The driver, 61-year-old Twila Obanion of […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers worked 294 traffic crashes, which included 107 injuries and all five fatalities. Troopers also made 139 DWI arrests and 126 drug arrests over the holiday weekend. 2020 July Fourth Holiday Boating Statistics Troopers worked nine boating crashes, which included four injuries and zero fatalities. Troopers made six BWI arrests and […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Newtown man sustained serious injuries when he was ejected from the all terrain vehicle he drove east of Harris the night of Friday, July 3rd after another ATV hit it. Fifty-three-year-old Ronald Faulkner was taken to the University Hospital of Columbia. The other driver, 24 year old Ridge Downard of […]
A Texas man was injured in a single-vehicle near Kirksville. Twenty-Seven-year-old Joel Hinojosa of La Feria, Texas received moderate injuries Monday night and was transported by an ambulance to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. Hinojosa was not using a seat belt. The car was northbound when it traveled off the right side of Adair […]
A Carrollton man was hurt when the motorcycle he was driving overturned in southwestern Carroll County ejecting him from the vehicle. Thirty-two-year-old Adam Geiger was taken to Carroll County Memorial Hospital with moderate injuries. The accident happened Saturday morning on Highway 10 south of Norborne when the eastbound motorcycle went off the road, hit an […]
A New Hampton man was hurt Saturday morning when the motorcycle he was operating hit a deer west of Bethany ejecting him from the bike. Twenty-nine-year-old David Peters was taken to Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany with moderate injuries. The accident happened three miles west of Bethany on Highway 136 as the motorcycle was […]
The Highway Patrol reports two area teens sustained moderate injuries after being ejected from all-terrain vehicles one mile south of Blythedale Wednesday afternoon. An ambulance transported a 13-year-old boy from Trenton and a 14-year-old boy from Blythedale to the Harrison County Community Hospital. The Patrol did not release the name of the teens. The ATVs […]
A federal judge has issued a stay of execution in the case of a convicted southwest Missouri killer, who was scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening at the maximum-security prison in Bonne Terre. 64-year-old Walter Barton was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1991 killing of 81-year-old Gladys Kuehler. She managed a mobile home park […]
The Highway Patrol reports an Atlanta, Missouri man sustained moderate injuries as a result of being ejected from the dirt bike he drove three miles west of Atlanta Thursday morning. An ambulance transported 39-year-old Michael Nay to the Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville. The dirt bike traveled west on Island Avenue before losing control, […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Breckenridge man being pursued by the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department sustained serious injuries when he was ejected from a motorcycle last (Monday) evening. An ambulance and air ambulance transported 35 year old Shane Walter to the University of Missouri Hospital of Columbia. The driver of a pickup truck involved in […]
The driver was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a passenger was killed in a single-vehicle rollover accident in rural Nodaway County. Thirty-seven-year-old Neil Minor of Tarkio was ejected from the overturning car and died at the scene of the crash three miles west of Maryville. Minor was a passenger in a car driven by 31-year-old Elizabeth Merriett […]
A car and bicycle accident Tuesday night one mile north of Cameron injured two people and the arrest of one. Thirty-four-year-old Travis Pyzer of Plattsburg was northbound on Route EE when his car sideswiped a bicyclist, 34-year-old Pride Willis of Cameron. Both men were taken by ambulance to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. A trooper […]
A Palmyra teenager was killed early Sunday in northeast Missouri. Nineteen-year-old Jarrad Verdier was pronounced dead at the scene five miles east of New London in Ralls County. The patrol reports Verdier was thrown from the eastbound four-wheeler when it traveled off the right side of Oak Hill Road and struck a fence. Verdier was […]
The Missouri Supreme Court has unanimously denied a request from a convicted murderer from southwest Missouri’s Ozark, clearing the way for his execution to take place next month in Bonne Terre. The Supreme Court has denied 64-year-old Walter Barton’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A writ of habeas corpus is essentially a court […]
A northwest Missouri resident was fatally injured when the car he was driving veered off a road in Nodaway County overturning several times. Thirty-three-year old David Pivral of Hopkins was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at MosaicMmedical Center in Maryville. The crash happened Friday evening seven miles northeast of Pickering on Route NN […]
The Highway Patrol reports two men sustained serious injuries in a one-car accident one mile west of Elmer on Monday evening. An air ambulance transported driver 43-year-old Brandon True of Kirksville to the University Hospital of Columbia, and an ambulance transported passenger 22-year-old Augustus Allen of Atlanta, Missouri to the University Hospital. The car traveled […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Milan woman sustained serious injuries when she was ejected from a sports utility vehicle six miles southeast of Milan Thursday morning. An ambulance transported 54-year-old Naioma Gladfelder to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan. The SUV traveled north on Route U before running off the right side of the road, […]
A man from Maryville was fatally injured in a rollover crash on Tuesday afternoon four miles east of Fillmore. The victim was identified as 49-year-old Stephen Coleman of Maryville who was pronounced dead at the scene by the Andrew County Coroner. Coleman was traveled westbound on Route A when the car traveled off the north […]
