Two teens suffer serious injuries in Christmas Eve crash

Published December 25, 2025 4:42 PM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A 17-year-old driver and his 16-year-old passenger suffered serious injuries in a crash late Wednesday in Randolph County.

The driver from Cairo, Missouri, went off the left side of the road and crashed into a creek on West Shore Drive, about 4 miles west of Jacksonville, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The driver and his passenger, who is from Kansas City, were taken to University Hospital by ambulance.

Neither of the boys was wearing a seat belt, the report says.

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