Highway 24 reopens after deadly crash near Moberly
RANDOLPH COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ)
A stretch of highway in Randolph County reopened late Tuesday after a deadly overnight crash.
Two people were killed in the crash involving two semis on Highway 24 just east of Moberly on Tuesday morning.
The road was closed from early morning until just before 5 p.m..
Sgt. Kyle Easley with the Missouri State Highway Patrol told ABC 17 News crews at the scene that the crash happened around midnight when a tractor-trailer was on Highway 24 blocking the road while attempting to turn around.
According to MSHP's online crash report, both Kaysamaula Blanks, 31, from Rancho Cordova, California, and Michael Fenner, 61, from Jackson, Michigan, were killed in the crash.
Blanks was driving a 2023 Freightliner tractor-trailer along Highway 24 and was stopped partially off the road with the semi blocking both lanes, the crash report says. Blanks was outside the truck when the semi-truck driven by Fenner struck Blanks. Both Blanks and Fenner were pronounced dead at 11:57 p.m. Monday.
Fenner and Blanks were taken by the Randolph County Coroner to Pathway Millard Funeral Home in Moberly.
Easley said with the damage to the two tractor-trailers, he expected cleanup to last several hours.
