Three persons were killed and two received serious injuries in a three-vehicle accident on Friday night, north of Trenton on Route A.
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Three persons were killed and two received serious injuries in a three-vehicle accident on Friday night, north of Trenton on Route A.
Trenton resident Ryan Bosley, 16, and Princeton residents Jake Leeper, 27, and his three-year-old daughter, Tara, died in the accident. Leeper and his daughter both died at Wright Memorial Hospital on Friday night while Bosley was pronounced dead on Saturday morning at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph.
Bosley was the driver of a pickup that was northbound on Route A and was attempting to pass two vehicles, the front vehicle being a truck driven by Logan Epperson of Laredo. The Bosley pickup met with the van driven by Leeper on a hillcrest, with both vehicles striking each other head on. Epperson’s vehicle then sideswiped the Bosley truck, with the Epperson vehicle traveling off the east side or the roadway. The driver of the other vehicle being passed was not identified in the Missouri Highway Patrol report.
A passenger in the Bosley vehicle, Derek Thorne, 17, of Trenton, was taken to Wright Memorial Hospital, then lifeflighted to Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City with serious injuries. He suffered a broken foot, a broken nose and lacerations on the face in addition to a bruise to the chest. Both Thorne and Bosley were wearing seatbelts as was Epperson, who was not reported injured. Thorne was to be dismissed for the hospital today.
A passenger in the Leeper van, 28-year-old Stacy Leeper, wife of the driver, was taken to Wright Memorial Hospital and then lifeflighted to North Kansas City Hospital with critical injuries. She was undergoing surgery today for those injuries, which included two broken legs as well as other severe injuries.
Both the Bosley truck and Leeper van were demolished. The Epperson truck received moderate damage.
Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. S.P. Skoglund investigated the accident and was assisted by Trooper T.B. Ziegler and members of Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, the Trenton Police Department, the Grundy County Fire and Rescue and Sgt. Mike Cool of the patrol’s crash team.
Funeral services for Bosley are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday in the Trenton High School gymnasium. Classes at the high school and middle school are to be dismissed at 10:30 a.m. to allow for the parking lot to be cleared prior to the services. Classes at Rissler Elementary School will be dismissed at 11 a.m.
Funeral services for the Jake and Tara Leeper will be at 1 p.m. on Friday at the Resthaven Mortuary, north of Trenton.
Because of the death of Ryan Bosley, several activities in the Trenton R-9 School District have either been cancelled, postponed or rescheduled.
Today’s tennis matches were being played and the middle school track teams went to the Carrollton Relays. Tuesday’s high school track meet at North Platte was cancelled. Activities Director George Moore said attempts were still being made to move the district golf tournament, scheduled for Wednesday at Richmond.
Freshmen orientation, scheduled for Tuesday night, has been moved to Monday, May 23. The orientation will be at 6:30 p.m. in the THS commons.