Boy, 7, dead after crashing UTV in Morgan County

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A 7-year-old boy was pronounced dead at University Hospital after he crashed a side-by-side Wednesday on a gravel road in Morgan County near Proctor.

The Stover boy was driving the vehicle on Blackbird Road near Birch Road at about 5:30 p.m. when the UTV skidded on the gravel, went off the left side of the road and overturned, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. The boy and a 42-year-old passenger, who had minor injuries, were each taken by ambulance to the hospital.

The death was the seventh traffic-related death this month in the Patrol's Troop F region.