COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: The boy’s age had been incorrect because of a source error. An 8-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
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KIMIZ) The westbound lanes of Interstate 70 near the Route Z exit in Boone County were shut down on Wednesday evening after a truck flipped during a crash Boone County Joint Communications sent a notification at 6:45 p.m. stating that a crash in the westbound lanes occurred near mile marker 133, between north
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 68-year-old man from Paris, Missouri, was flown to University Hospital on Wednesday after his UTV crashed in Monroe County, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man drove the Kawasaki Mule 3000 on private property when he crashed into a tree and was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 30-year-old Sedalia man died late Tuesday in a crash in Pettis County. The man was driving a 2018 Dodge Challenger on Route M north of Whiteman Road when he ran off the side of the road, hit a tree and a fence and rolled the vehicle, according to a Missouri State
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 38-year-old Ashland woman was seriously hurt in a crash, south of Ashland in Boone County, just after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash happened on Highway 63, just north of Gilmore Lane. A 2025 Peterbilt 548, driven by a 25-year-old Columbia man, had
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 49-year-old Montreal, Missouri man was seriously hurt during a crash in Pulaski County just before 8 p.m. Monday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was riding a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle. He tried to overtake a 2022 Polaris side-by-side, driven by a 26-year-old Laquey woman at
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BUTLER, Mo. (KMIZ) The Butler Police Department said Monday that North Business 49 at the Butler Memorial Airport will be closed as officials investigate a deadly plane crash from Sunday that killed 12 people. Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board arrived on Monday. According to the FAA, the plane
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A three-vehicle crash led to the eastbound lane of Interstate 70 to close down on Monday evening near the St. Charles Road exit in Columbia. Boone County Joint Communications sent a notification at 8:32 p.m. stating that the road was closed at the 133.4-mile marker because of a crash. Traffic appeared to
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COLUMBIA MO. (KMIZ) After a skydiving pilot and 11 skydivers we killed after their plane crashed after takeoff Sunday in western Missouri, skydiving businesses and pilots across the state are providing there reaction. Jake Strain, co-owner of Skydive STL, says the accident hits home. “It is deeply tragic, most things are a lot of time
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By Andy Rose, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — After personally looking over the wreckage of the deadliest skydiving plane crash of the decade on a bright June day, Jennifer Homendy with the National Transportation Safety Board said things must change. That crash was in 2019 in Mokuleia, Hawaii, claiming 11 lives.Homendy – then a board
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A crash on Interstate 70 near the Boone, Callaway County line caused traffic to back up Monday morning. An alert from Boone County Joint Communications sent just before 7:30 a.m. states the crash happened at the 134.6 mile-marker of the interstate and to use caution. Both lanes reopened around 8:30 a.m. An
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 50-year-old Illinois woman is dead after a crash in Camden County just before 1:20 p.m. Sunday. A Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report said the woman was driving Westbound on U.S. 54 when she went off the right side of the road and struck the edge of a concrete driveway. The
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COLUMBIA MO. (KMIZ) Tthe Missouri State Highway Patrol is urging drivers to stay alert following a string of recent crashes near Columbia. Columbia Fire and Rescue Dispatch logs show 25 collisions have occurred in construction zones on Interstate 70 in the city since May 1, six of which occurred this week. Lairyn McGregor, a Missouri
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A five-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 in Boone County caused traffic backups late Thursday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash happened around 9:30 p.m. at the 121-mile marker in the westbound lanes. Four cars were stuck in traffic due to a lane closure when a 2026 Peterbilt
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 70-year-old Camdenton woman was seriously hurt in a Camden County crash Thursday evening. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the woman was stopped waiting to turn left at the intersection of U.S. 54 and Cedar Heights Dr. at 6:38 p.m Thursday. The woman’s 2015 Toyota Rav4 was hit
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 45-year-old Colorado woman died in a crash Thursday afternoon on Highway 7 in Climax Springs, north of Route Z, according to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the Edgewater, Colorado woman drove a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado northbound when her vehicle crossed the center line and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eastbound Interstate 70 is back open Thursday morning after a multi-vehicle crash. The crash happened near the 117 mile-marker, between Boonville and Columbia in Boone County. Both eastbound lanes of the interstate were originally shut down. One lane of the interstate reopened just before 8 a.m., according to a Boone County Joint
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 23-year-old Camdenton man was seriously hurt during a crash in Camden County just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the man was driving a 2013 Cadillac XTS on Meadow Dr. at Camelot Dr. when he didn’t stop at a stop sign. The car went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 44-year-old Lohman man was killed in a crash Saturday, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report. According to the report, at around 2 p.m., the man was driving a 2005 Ford F150 north on Route D just north of Hilltop Lane when he drove off the left side of
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 66-year-old Versailles man was killed in a crash on Friday afternoon on Route W in Morgan County near Old Marvin Cutoff Road, a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol says. The report says the man drove a 2023 Chevrolet Silverado southbound and it went off the left side of
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