Dixon man seriously injured in single-vehicle Phelps County Crash

PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Dixon man was seriously injured when the vehicle he was driving flipped over in Phelps County.

According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the crash occurred on Saturday just after 8 p.m. on Highway M, about 6 miles west of Edgar Springs. The 34-year-old man was driving a 2001 Nissan Frontier when the vehicle failed to negotiate a left turn-- traveled off the left side of the road-- flipped over-- and struck a fence.

The man was taken to University Hospital in Columbia with serious injuries.

Two passengers in the vehicle-- a 3-year-old boy and 31-year-old woman from Dixon-- suffered minor injuries in the crash.

According to the report, the boy and driver of the vehicle were not wearing seatbelts when the crash occurred.