Crash proves fatal for St. Joseph woman

PLATTE COUNTY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- A St. Joseph woman is dead following a one-vehicle crash on Sunday afternoon on Interstate 29 in northern Platte County.

The woman, 39, was a passenger in a van driven by a 52-year-old St. Joseph man. The driver was going north on I-29 at about 3:30 p.m. when he approached a slow-moving vehicle and overcorrected, traveling into the median and causing the van to overturn near the 27-mile marker, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report.

The driver suffered moderate injuries in the accident, and a 15-year-old passenger from Hopkins, Missouri, had minor injuries. Both were taken to Mosaic Life Care.

The woman who was killed and the two people taken to Mosaic were not wearing seat belts, according to the patrol report.