Three residents of Richmond were injured with one of them taken to a hospital following a two-vehicle accident on Sunday afternoon in rural Ray County.
Injuries were serious for 20-year-old Nicholas Weisz who was driving a car northbound. He was taken by EMS to the Truman Medical Center. Receiving minor injuries were a passenger, 19-year-old David Jackson, as well as the driver of a westbound car, 32-year-old Shawn Scates. Jackson and Scates both declined treatment at the scene.
Weisz failed to halt for a stop sign on South Point Drive and pulled into the path of the other car driven by Scates who traveling on Highway 210.
Scates was using a seat belt while the other two were not. Both cars were demolished in the crash.
