Three dead, three hospitalized in four-vehicle Atchison County crash Sunday
By NewsPress Now
Three people are dead, and three others went to the hospital after a Sunday morning crash in Atchison County, Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the accident occurred at about 7:22 a.m. on Interstate 29, six miles north of Watson, Missouri.
A 29-year-old Bellevue, Nebraska, man was reportedly driving south into northbound traffic and struck a car driven by an 18-year-old Kearney, Missouri man head-on.
The first car continued south after the collision, traveled off the road, hit a bridge and caught on fire.
The Kearney man’s vehicle traveled off the road as well, and flipped, ejecting the driver.
A 30-year-old Ontario, Canada, trucker swerved to avoid the first two cars and struck a fourth vehicle: a truck driven by a 32-year-old Tabor, Iowa man.
Those two vehicles traveled off the road into the median.
The Nebraska and Kearney drivers were pronounced dead at the scene, as was an 18-year-old Kearney woman traveling with the latter. Troopers report she was not wearing a seat belt.
A second passenger in the Kearney man’s vehicle, another 18-year-old woman from the same town, suffered serious injuries and was flown to Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She reportedly was wearing a seat belt.
A 1-year-old boy in the Nebraska man’s car suffered moderate injuries and was taken to Grape Hospital in Hamburg, Iowa.
The Tabor, Iowa man was taken to the same hospital with minor injuries.
The Canadian trucker avoided harm, according to the highway patrol crash report.
