A Newtown teenager received minor injuries last night in a single-vehicle accident on a rural road in Mercer County. Seventeen-year-old Lauren Fordyce declined treatment at the scene. Fordyce was eastbound on Florence Street when the sports utility vehicle she was driving went off the south side of the road, returned to the road where it […]
Two Trenton residents and one Maryville man sustained injuries when one pickup truck struck another two miles east of Arkoe Tuesday morning. The Highway Patrol reports 74-year-old Thomas Metzgar of Trenton drove west on Route VV when he failed to yield at a stop sign and entered the intersection with Route N. Sixty-eight year old […]
A Polo woman was injured when her SUV crashed on I-35 Tuesday evening. Twenty-year-old Jennifer Rash was injured when the sports utility vehicle she was driving traveled off northbound Interstate 35 and struck an embankment. She was taken by ambulance to the Liberty Hospital with minor injuries. The SUV received moderate damage in the Clay […]
A Cameron resident, Sixteen-year-old Jordon Weisgerber, was injured in an accident three miles north of Osborn Tuesday and taken by private vehicle to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The patrol reports the teenager was westbound on Gridley Road, attempted to halt the pickup he was driving at a stop sign for Highway 33, […]
The highway patrol reports a Trenton teen received a minor injury in a rollover accident this morning on Northwest 5th Street just outside of the city limits by one and a half miles. The highway patrol said 16-year-old Aaron Farrell declined treatment at the scene. Neither he nor his passenger, 16-year-old Lane Winsor of Trenton, […]
A Kirksville resident was injured in a rollover accident Monday afternoon in eastern Putnam County three miles north of Glendale. Twenty-five-year-old Mackenzie Schramm was taken by ambulance to Northeast Regional Medical Center of Kirksville. The highway patrol reported she was using a seat belt and listed her injuries as minor. Ms. Schramm was driving southbound […]
The Highway Patrol reports a Chillicothe woman sustained minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident near Meadville Tuesday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Derick Dennis of Humphreys reportedly failed to stop his pickup at a stop sign and pulled into the path of a sports utility vehicle driven by Lorrinda Suddith of Chillicothe. Both vehicles came to rest off […]
According to a recent survey, more Missourian’s are making the smart choice to buckle up. With sixty-five percent of Missouri’s traffic crash fatalities involving an unbelted driver or passenger, this increase could result in many lives saved. The 2017 Missouri Seat Belt Usage Survey final report, conducted by the Missouri Safety Center and the University […]
A Lathrop man has been injured in an I-35 traffic accident at Cameron. The highway patrol reports 34-year-old Matthew Carrel was taken by ambulance Monday morning to Mosiac Life Care in St. Joseph with serious Injuries. Carrel’s northbound pickup went off the east side of Interstate 35 and struck a guardrail. The vehicle came to […]
Missouri high schools now have the opportunity to compete in the 2017 “It Only Takes One” campaign which provides opportunities to win prizes for your school while educating young drivers about safe driving habits and safety belt use. The campaign is sponsored by the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety and ACT Missouri. Statewide registration is […]
A rollover accident yesterday at Leisure Lake injured a rural Trenton woman. 70-year-old Diana Hoppe received minor injuries and was taken by a private vehicle to Wright Memorial Hospital. The highway patrol reports Mrs. Hoppe was eastbound when her sports utility vehicle went off the right side of Leisure Lake Drive and struck a wooden […]
An accident in eastern Putnam County at 6:30 Monday evening injured a woman from Worthington, Missouri when there was a collision involving a car and farm tractor at a bridge five miles to the southwest of Livonia. The highway patrol reports 52-year-old Thersa Steiser of Worthington was flown by medical helicopter to Methodist Hospital in Des […]
The 2016 Missouri Teen Safety Belt Survey is complete. The safety belt usage for all teenage driver and front seat passengers combined totaled 70.4 percent, representing a 1.4 percent increase from one year ago. Traffic crashes continue to be the leading cause of death for youth ages 15 to 20 in Missouri, accounting for […]
The highway patrol described injuries as minor for a Laredo woman involved in a traffic accident last night at the Thompson River bridge half a mile west of Trenton. The patrol reports 70-year-old Jackie Owens was taken by ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital. The report noted that just past 8:30 Wednesday evening, the eastbound car […]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Chillicothe Police Department conducted a seat belt and child restraint enforcement detail this morning, May 6, 2016. The operation was set to target parents and young drivers who were not using proper vehicle restraints for themselves and/or their child passengers. This operation was conducted on Dickinson Street at […]
A Bethany resident was injured wen the pickup truck he was driving traveled off Highway 69 north of Bethany, hit a fence, and overturned onto its top. Forty-six year old Isaac Martinez was taken to Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany, with what the Highway Patrol called moderate injuries. The accident was Saturday afternoon five […]
The highway patrol reports a 33-year old Bethany resident, Tracy Friend, received minor injuries in a Saturday night traffic accident, four miles south of Bethany. The patrol reports Harrison County Community Hospital called law enforcement to report the accident when Friend sought treatment on Sunday. The patrol reports Friend as saying the accident occurred as […]
