COOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Three men were hurt following a crash on Interstate 70 in Cooper County early Tuesday morning. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 12:10 a.m. in the westbound lanes at the 91-mile marker. Troopers said a van driven by Jerry D. Weller, 64, of Overland Park, Kansas,
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The deaths happened during the patrol’s Christmas counting period, which began at 6 p.m. Thursday and ended at 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The 310 crashes troopers investigated represented a slight increase compared to last year, when troopers were sent to 307 crashes, the patrol said in a news release. Ten people were killed last year.
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were hurt following a rollover crash on Interstate 70 east of Columbia on Wednesday night. The crash happened around 8:45 p.m. in the eastbound lanes at the 135-mile marker, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Troopers said a car driven by Jared E. Thompson, 26, of Columbia, flipped
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Assistant chief Bryant Gladney had served the citizens of Boone County for 25 years but had worked in emergency response in the Mid-Missouri area for more than three decades.
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On Wednesday morning, several people stopped to help direct traffic on the first crash involving a box truck on westbound I-70.
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The district said in a news release that Bryant Gladney died at the scene after the crash involving a tractor-trailer near Route Z. Gladney was going to the scene of a crash when a westbound tractor-trailer hit Gladney’s firetruck at high speed before hitting a University Hospital ambulance and the vehicle involved in the original crash, according to the release.
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Officials with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department say no one is hurt following a roll-over crash in Boone County that happened around 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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Both westbound lanes of Interstate 70 were closed Tuesday afternoon near Boonville in Cooper County, the Missouri Department of Transportation said.
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AUDRAIN, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman from Jefferson City was seriously hurt in an Audrain County crash on Thursday afternoon. 50-year-old Michael Metz was slowing down to make a turn along U.S. 54 Westbound at Route HH when he was hit by 29-year-old Siri Wagner. Wagner was seriously injured in the crash and taken to University
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PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman is in serious condition following a crash on eastbound I-44 in Phelps County on Thursday morning. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Terri K. Hudson, 64, of Union, Missouri, crashed into a guardrail several times after her vehicle went off of the road and hit an embankment around
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The crash happened a little before 1:30 a.m. when a truck driven by Timothy Reiner, 36, of Tarkio, Missouri, went out of its lane on the on-ramp and crashed into a curb and street sign, the Jefferson City Police Department said in a news release. The truck drove up onto a concrete divider and began to go back onto Highway 54 before hitting the side of a concrete bridge and landing on its side, police say.
Continue Reading MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Versailles man suffered serious injuries in a crash Sunday afternoon in Morgan County. The single-vehicle crash happened at 2:10 p.m. Sunday on Webb Road, one mile west of Route J. The driver of a 2012 Ford F150, Lee Loman of Versailles, drove off the right side of the road, overturned,
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Three people were hurt in a crash on the Highway 54/63 southbound Missouri River bridge just before noon when a Ford Fusion changed lanes and hit a Lincoln Towncar, sending the Lincoln into the concrete wall, according to a Jefferson City Police Department news release. All three of the injured people were in the Towncar, and they were taken to a hospital with moderate injuries.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Joint Communications is reporting a vehicle crash closing both lanes of Highway 63 at Highway 22. Officials say to use caution, avoid the area if possible. Check back for updates on this developing story.
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Emergency dispatchers sent out a public alert on the crash at Old 63 and Bluffdale Drive at about 8:15 a.m. A firefighter at the scene said three cars were involved. It wasn’t immediately clear how serious the two men’s injuries were.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police are looking for a driver after an SUV crashed into a Columbia home early Tuesday morning. An ABC 17 News crew saw at least five Columbia Police Department patrol cruisers around 2:15 a.m. at the scene of the crash near Leslie Lane and Newton Drive. Police said the driver wasn’t at
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Sheriff’s Office is looking to arrest Harold David Fogle, age 60 of Hannibal, Missouri, as the suspect who crashed into innocent motorists while fleeing from a deputy on Thursday night. A started around 11 p.m. Thursday night and ended after a vehicle, believed to be driven by Fogle, ran
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: According to Columbia Police, 26-year-old Cameron Acton of Columbia died in a crash along North Highway 63 Southbound near the Southbound connector ramp on Sunday morning. Police say Acton traveling southbound when the car went off the road and down an embankment. The car then overturned and came to a stop.
Continue Reading AUDRAIN, Mo. (KMIZ) A Newark, Missouri man was seriously hurt in an Audrain County crash on Saturday morning. According the Missouri State Highway Crash report, 37-year-old Jeremy Thomas was driving a truck along MO 15 at Route T when he hit a guardrail and the truck overturned. The truck was totaled in the crash and
Continue Reading The Missouri State Highway Patrol said one man is in the hospital with serious injuries, following a single vehicle crash in Johnson County.
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